<?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 definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve or faint;   "His life is Christ, his death is gain."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41380]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of those guys were supposed to come over here with him and I think that's one of the reasons he doesn't want to come. It would remind him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62994]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever thesame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need my space and that's what they're saying -- 'I'd like to have my space,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need my space and that's what they're saying -- 'I'd like to have my space,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be at all is to be religious more or less]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12118]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best ways to remember that day and all the innocent lives that were lost is to recognize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39888]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to remember that day and all the innocent lives that were lost is to recognize that we're still a community and we need to work together, get along together, stand on one another's shoulders, help and encourage each other. It's the silent ways of supporting people as well as the very loud ways that can be beneficial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16489]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered family,    Enlarger of the common life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42421]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on a landlocked lake. There is not a whole lot of on-ground stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42421</guid></item></channel></rss>