<?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[You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56287]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser eye betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend,  But instantly your forehead louers,   As if her merit lessen'd yours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, and it became a solid five-day project. I put a lot of love into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27569]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32295]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where thou art, that is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item></channel></rss>