<?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 found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself  Till by broad spreading it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself  Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits form character and character is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vibrations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vibrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10932]]></link><description><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15637]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is,   But no good girl's lip out of Paris.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item></channel></rss>