<?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[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34995</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[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there's not much mystery. It will be a matter of who out-executes whom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30326</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[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,  And all the minor spots of rock and verdue,   The abodes of happy millions, were no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child needs to be referred to the committee before anything can be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real foreveryone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves littlemore than changing our ideas about what is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53332</guid></item></channel></rss>