<?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[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48589]]></link><description><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55663]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very false gallop of verses. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47872]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find astrange picture on your press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find astrange picture on your press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240   We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a huge bump up for us. The addition of 'Dr. Phil' has provided a strong platform and lead-in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38063]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a huge bump up for us. The addition of 'Dr. Phil' has provided a strong platform and lead-in to our newscast. Most importantly, people are staying with our news. We have literally done a 180 on 'MAQ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bert was dominant especially early on when it mattered most. You could tell it was an inspired effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me But dreams of what has been, no more to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me But dreams of what has been, no more to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,   Especially when life is rather new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not the moment of regrets. We are sorry, embittered, but this is soccer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30081</guid></item></channel></rss>