<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juan will always love Washington and the entire Washington area because he has so many great memories there. But he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Juan will always love Washington and the entire Washington area because he has so many great memories there. But he's excited about going to Portland, where he'll have the opportunity to expand his game and be a part of a young and improving team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is the mother of Councels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57986]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education and our future. If we're not going to school, what's the point of all this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This event was intended to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina while bringing people together, regardless of faith. Everyone understands the need to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give endorsements, but they can at least lead you to three or four people in your geographic area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35351]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give endorsements, but they can at least lead you to three or four people in your geographic area that you can meet with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The troops have not been protected. We need to bring them home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42211]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions they can impose. We are pleased. This is what we envisioned as going to happen from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42211</guid></item></channel></rss>