<?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[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there was a problem in determining how much money was missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're dealing with some of the same countries that we're dealing with. They're dealing in manufacturing environments as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31379]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're dealing with some of the same countries that we're dealing with. They're dealing in manufacturing environments as well as distributor environments. They're dealing with import and export issues, which is a big part of our business. They understand the fundamentals and have hands-on experience with all supply-chain activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry about this game more than I do against some of the better teams. We have a tendency to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry about this game more than I do against some of the better teams. We have a tendency to play to the level of our competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</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[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</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[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids gave it all they had. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket, and we've had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids gave it all they had. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket, and we've had a hard time doing that all season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal Reserve to wind up its rate-hiking campaign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;   Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time he arrived at the hospital at 3:30 (Friday), he converted to a normal rhythm, and therefore no therapeutic interventions were necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43085</guid></item></channel></rss>