<?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[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's a matter of personal piety. Many parishioners choose to add something, like prayer or extra worship services, or take on a cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place   Farthest from pain?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect it to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond   Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the sunset breezes shiver, And she's fading down the river,  But in England's song forever   She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the sunset breezes shiver, And she's fading down the river,  But in England's song forever   She's the Fighting Temeraire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18789]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.  Where grew the arts of war and peace,--   Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!    Eternal summer gilds them yet,     But all, except their sun, is set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, with all due respect to those in attendance, this is a Trojan horse for District 300,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to have a major presence and visibility in downtown Dallas. By consolidating our downtown locations, we will bring together 1,600 employees to serve our customers more efficiently and conveniently from one central location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28974]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American people are behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself,  And found the blessedness of being little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289</guid></item></channel></rss>