<?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[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Albert Einstein -Irish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both togethergo to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, I think we saw a team that had to change things around a bit. Not this week. And has started before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26523]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to His disciples of the joy that no man taketh away. Read again the story of His Passion: Jesus is seen throughout as calm, quiet, and confident. His last word is, "Father, into Thy hands I commit my spirit". Someone may say, "Yes, but He knew that He was going to rise from the dead." But have we not the same promise for ourselves? [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17358]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27189]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229]]></link><description><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense of just letting things take their course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32816]]></link><description><![CDATA[In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing will especially help those on fixed incomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416</guid></item></channel></rss>