<?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[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christ drew near to death, He Himself trembled. It was an experience of all His creation, but He had never felt it. To His humanity, His assumed flesh, it seemed terrible -- Gethsemane bears witness how terrible it seemed; but He passed into it for love of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very important part of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268]]></link><description><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and so full of pain!   Forever and forever shalt thou be    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,     To some the landmark of a new domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. But the infield defense was really solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there's probably a lot of questions among (US ) producers about what all this means. There's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there's probably a lot of questions among (US ) producers about what all this means. There's going to be an increased level of concern in the (WTO) process going forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66675]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,   Pourest thy full heart    In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used age against Morgenthau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43324]]></link><description><![CDATA[That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satanic school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Satanic school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/183</guid></item></channel></rss>