<?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[We don't know why the numbers are up. There hasn't been any apparent growth in the county, yet some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know why the numbers are up. There hasn't been any apparent growth in the county, yet some of the enrollment figures have grown and we aren't sure why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any punches. He'll express good taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry in particular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and Harry is going to miss Pierre, Hans and Yoshio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26205]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,   Whose joys are chastened by their grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307]]></link><description><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because it is sealed up and no one turns back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47462]]></link><description><![CDATA[By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobler the blood the less the pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobler the blood the less the pride]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2477</guid></item></channel></rss>