<?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[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his mistress. His work is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tongue is now a stringless instrument; Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34794]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without laughter is a day wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59779]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and we've made the plays behind them -- and that's something we didn't do last year. We didn't play good defense behind our pitching and we walked too many guys and we've cleaned up those areas. It's really been a difference for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance for future earnings that is far from stellar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On any given day, the market is taking its cue from forecasts and results. Juniper was negative, so that's spilling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34035]]></link><description><![CDATA[On any given day, the market is taking its cue from forecasts and results. Juniper was negative, so that's spilling through the Nasdaq. I think, overall, though, the trend through the rest of the year and into early next year will be more positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item></channel></rss>