<?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[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65873]]></link><description><![CDATA[My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the youngest team in the NFL. They're not supposed to be doing anything. They are supposed to be the youngest team, but they didn't look like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely contributed to the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early heat-up in temperatures and the relatively few number of days with rain have definitely contributed to the early heat-up in housing sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14674]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's outset to inform mankind   Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be a little further away [than Phillips was].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,   We are enforced to farm our royal realm,    The revenue whereof shall furnish us     For our affairs in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had to step back to avoid being stabbed in the chest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53274]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy being green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy being green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482]]></link><description><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482</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[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3936]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29475]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as with any strong leaders, you're going to have points of contention where they are going to express their strengths. That doesn't mean they don't respect one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18814</guid></item></channel></rss>