<?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[The foundation of family - that\'s where it all begins for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of family - that\'s where it all begins for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were our pets. Whoever did this went to a lot of trouble to steal someone's pets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were our pets. Whoever did this went to a lot of trouble to steal someone's pets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34472]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to our algorithms, find some order in this. We're creating these from scratch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812]]></link><description><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's a person, no matter how small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65971]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's a person, no matter how small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item></channel></rss>