<?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[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is a source of great strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is a source of great strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove yearly what can be adopted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you got in a scene with Don, it was like stepping up onto a surfboard, and you just flew through those waves. It was exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24133]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,   And giv'st access, though secret she retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50441]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44868]]></link><description><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47099]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380]]></link><description><![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties with things like time management.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drought never brought dearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drought never brought dearth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, / And ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beastsSlaughtered to satisfy our appetitesWe never pause to wonder at our feastsIf animals, like men, can possiblyhave rightsWe pray on Sundays that we may have lightTo guide our footsteps on the path wetreadWe're sick of war We do not want tofightThe thought of it now fills our hearts with dreadAnd yet we gorge ourselves upon the deadLike carrion crows we live and feed on meatRegardless of the suffering and painWe cause by doing so. If thus we treatDefenseless animals for sport or gainHow can we hope in this world to attainthe PEACE we say we are so anxious forWe pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral lawThus cruelty begets its offspring: war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035</guid></item></channel></rss>