<?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[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox changes his skin but not his habits. [Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox changes his skin but not his habits. [Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the law of supply and demand. Demand is down, supply is up, so the price is down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the law of supply and demand. Demand is down, supply is up, so the price is down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wasn't expected to live the first week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34043]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wasn't expected to live the first week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786]]></link><description><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sinful heart makes feeble hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world to which the Apostles preached their new message, religion had not been the solace of the weary, the medicine of the sick, the strength of the sin-laden, the enlightenment of the ignorant: It was the privilege of the healthy and the instructed. The sick and the ignorant were excluded. They were under the bondage of evil demons. "This people which knoweth not the law are accursed", was the common doctrine of Jews and Greeks. The philosophers addressed themselves only to the well-to-do, the intellectual, and the pure. To the mysteries were invited only those who had clean hands and sound understanding. It was a constant marvel to the heathen that the Christians called the sick and the sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941  Paul does not forbid you to use rites and ceremonies, but it is not his wish that he who is free in Christ should be bound by them. He does not condemn the law of works if only one uses it lawfully. Without these things perhaps you will not be pious; but they do not make you pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1200]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36366]]></link><description><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18344]]></link><description><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949</guid></item></channel></rss>