<?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... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[maybe the odds are less than 50-50 after yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35675]]></link><description><![CDATA[maybe the odds are less than 50-50 after yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3845]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes:    Thus mellowed to that tender light     Which heaven to gaudy day denies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29435]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might have to be extended again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20463]]></link><description><![CDATA[An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12825]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43441]]></link><description><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zen of flyfishing is that zen mastersdon't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zen of flyfishing is that zen mastersdon't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consists in the knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consists in the knowledge of God and Christ, not in reverence for the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man'ssuperiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And there's no faux woodÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âanywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31517]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And there's no faux woodÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â€ÂšÃ‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Âanywhere. Instead, Sarillo builds his restaurants with oak floors and hand-hewn pine, spruce and Douglas fir beams from 100-year-old Midwestern barns.] All the way down to the nails, it's a real barn, ... you feel like it's real stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42483]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594]]></link><description><![CDATA[This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest,  Such as I love; and you among the store,   One more, most welcome, makes my number more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402</guid></item></channel></rss>