<?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[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it's not going to stop. It's going on nine or 10 days since he's pitched a game. These are all the things you can't make up for. All you can do is, first and foremost, get him healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  If you here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor through inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who have really made history are the martyrs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed. We are surrounded and penetrated by great spiritual forces of which we hardly know anything. Yet the outward events of our life cannot be understood, except in their relation to that unseen and intensely living world, the Infinite Charity which penetrates and supports us, the God whom we resist and yet for whom we thirst; who is ever at work, transforming the self-centred desire of the natural creature into the wide spreading, outpouring love of the citizen of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18915]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,you see, humor is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing that could take all these tools and make them the channel of God's will. In spite of its ever-increasing membership, the church lacks the spirit of God's growing love and understanding that can transform it from an efficient organization into a loving, dynamic fellowship where men and women become vitally alive with faith, love, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We basically sell anything that you would see at a deli. Our highest marked meal would be approximately $3.95, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40501]]></link><description><![CDATA[We basically sell anything that you would see at a deli. Our highest marked meal would be approximately $3.95, so it's a good deal come lunchtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5530]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute the Moorish flute,   And nodding guards watch wearily,    On, then let me,     From prison free,      March out by moonlight cheerily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I turned the house into a studio and invited over a bunch of sailors, who were actually students I'd met at USC. They were studying cinema to become technical cameramen. They weren't real sailors picked up off the street, but they were very happy to play these roles in my film.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on the job a couple of weeks ago, he's been working on that file.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55646]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55646</guid></item></channel></rss>