<?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[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confine yourself to the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. His work schedule of 12 to 16 hours a day leaves him an in exhaustive state, and just a few drinks -- or any drink -- are too much to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest rates are about to be increased. [Durbin] is trying to lock them in at a lower rate than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest rates are about to be increased. [Durbin] is trying to lock them in at a lower rate than what is about to happen in July...he's really trying to cut in half the interest rate that would be locked in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION – that load, we're only talking about one load – connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30198]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's just the beginning. You ain't seen nothing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest distance between two points is under construction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. That's what we'll need this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One enemy is too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One enemy is too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48680]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action -- you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things... You are not called to get to heaven, to do good, or to be good -- you are called to belong to Jesus Christ. The doing good, the being good, and the getting to heaven, are the by-products of that belonging. The center of conversion is the belonging of a person to a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't my goal to come in here and turn everything around because they have had some success. With a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't my goal to come in here and turn everything around because they have had some success. With a lot of things, if it's not broke I am not trying to fix it. There are a lot of things that last year they did very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47832</guid></item></channel></rss>