<?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[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22880]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis good-will makes intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. But he's under contract. Sometimes you have to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very popular. He got along with everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29346]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very popular. He got along with everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch ofbastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is entrusted to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my life. So much trivia. I don't fault them for that ? all of it applies to some people's lives but not mine. I feel that I have better things to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57142]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 Christ, beneath Thy cross,  To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,  And yet not weep? Not so those women loved  Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;  Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;  Not so the thief was moved; Not so the Sun and Moon  Which hid their faces in a starless sky:  A horror of great darkness at broad noon I only I. Yet give not o'er  But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;  Greater than Moses, turn and look once more  And smite a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a team without a lot of respect all year. I guarantee there wasn't many picking us third (in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a team without a lot of respect all year. I guarantee there wasn't many picking us third (in the state tournament).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept lifeunquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run awayfrom, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in theend. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy,and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one forhim who has the vision to recognize it as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,   And over it softly her warm ear lays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11014</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></channel></rss>