<?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[Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a disease from which we all recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1815</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[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd still be a host county. But I think what's happening now with the magnitude of the storms we're looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd still be a host county. But I think what's happening now with the magnitude of the storms we're looking at is we're going to see a lot deeper intrusion by these storms when they get over Polk County or get over Central Florida.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess to what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55838]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46493]]></link><description><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</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[Faith is not contrary to reason…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not contrary to reason….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45573]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1475]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it can just leave you again later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety: it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there but they played very well defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  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/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel  (Who had no doubt some noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56195]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel  (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)   Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock    Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58606]]></link><description><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of cabbages--and kings--    And why the sea is boiling hot--     And whether pigs have wings."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That has considered the decline in cigarette consumption and production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That has considered the decline in cigarette consumption and production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignorethem long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignorethem long enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he is called, either because I want to examine him, or because the commissioner grants any application that might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he is called, either because I want to examine him, or because the commissioner grants any application that might be made(to cross-examine Mr Howard), I hope we can do it on Thursday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount offear as the person who regularly takes risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parliamentary agreement has been reached between the Kurdish coalition and the (Shiite) alliance on accepting the suggestions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parliamentary agreement has been reached between the Kurdish coalition and the (Shiite) alliance on accepting the suggestions of the forces that did not take part in the elections (Sunnis) and it will be announced in parliament tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36226</guid></item></channel></rss>