<?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[We own the intellectual property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4310]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size   Grow teasing with their melodies,    Till noon burns with its blistering breath     Around, and day lies still as death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on a first class presentation that all four teams will enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair and it caused an under-the-nail blood blister. The injury occurred in the post-Photoshop era, but even so, the resulting lag in work could have cost him trusted clients.] I thought Photoshop was the end of my career, ... I thought they'd be able to get any ol' pair of hands in there. But what most people don't realize is there's a brain that comes connected to these hands. You need to know the tricks of the trade. It's just like fashion modeling: You can get a pretty woman to put on an outfit, but once you send her down the runway, does she know what to do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. You see I have done my best, so it isn't really my fault if you think Tweedledum and Tweedledee stupid, and wish that I had left out all about the train and the gnat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light and perfect knowledge, or life of Christ, by much questioning, or by hearsay, or by reading and study, nor yet by high skill and great learning. Yea, so long as a man taketh account of anything which is this or that, whether it be himself, or any other creature; or doeth anything, or frameth a purpose, for the sake of his own likings or desires or opinions or ends, he cometh not unto the life of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the trustee of prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that most people have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39492]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4286]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,  I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,   Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item></channel></rss>