<?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[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days of love are over: me no more The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,  Can make the fool of; that they made before:   In fact I must not lead the life I did do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248]]></link><description><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty begets license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty begets license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts before them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts before them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has nothing to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support (once they are released) is so helpful its almost the only thing that counts. Sincerity has nothing to do with whether they will change their lifestyle. It's whether or not they can connect with someone once they get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my ownefforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my ownefforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38408</guid></item></channel></rss>