<?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[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans. Imagine. I have the beer can husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him who is determined it remains only to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63299]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him who is determined it remains only to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really grateful we were able to get the grant. We couldn't have done it without that. There' s no way. We would have had to replace the infields with the same type of stuff we have now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41662]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book you don't read can't help ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book you don't read can't help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest;  It kissed and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest;  It kissed and it thought of nothing beside.   The fair month of May was then in its pride,    The flowers were all from the earth fast springing,     The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes being "friends with" his fellow man. Christ stated emphatically that it was quite impossible, in the nature of things, for a man to be at peace with God and at variance with his neighbor. This disquieting fact is often hushed up, but it is undeniable that Christ said it, and the truth of it is enshrined in the petition for forgiveness in the "Lord's Prayer.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8416]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58571</guid></item></channel></rss>