<?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[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent;  The hills are mute: yet, how they speak of God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9318]]></link><description><![CDATA[When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57875]]></link><description><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was totally unprecedented - a live interchange with no questions given in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38946]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was totally unprecedented - a live interchange with no questions given in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33159]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over for anybody, ... Bring your 'A' game, because we're bringing ours. No matter how ridiculous the score is or how close the score is, you're still going to have to play every play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32757]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. Now, by this time, I thought Ron was just full of B.S., that he couldn't possibly know where we were going. We were on little, two-lane, unmarked roads. But then, on the next turn, we pull right up in front of Florida State's stadium. It was incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the skeptics are convinced it works,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies,  I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries,  The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things,  And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25178]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 percent inflation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30901]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 percent inflation and GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 5.4 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final reality, and the ultimate fact of our total situation to which we need to be adjusted, is God. That indeed would be my definition of God: God is He with whom we have ultimately to do, the final reality to which we have to face up, and with whom we have, in the last resort, to reckon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;  The wail still is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60382]]></link><description><![CDATA["Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;  The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare   Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; and teach me how   To name the bigger light, and how the less,    That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee     And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,      The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to turn my back on him but he always managed to win me over. I know now that I am weak-willed and that I should have moved on with my life but what can I say? He had such a strong hold over me, it was hard for me to deny him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't care, your customer never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't care, your customer never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to get one in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to get one in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dearths foreseene come not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dearths foreseene come not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56291</guid></item></channel></rss>