<?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[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60838]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the referees going to treat him like Michael Jordan in his first playoff or like Michael Jordan after six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the referees going to treat him like Michael Jordan in his first playoff or like Michael Jordan after six championships? We don't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,  But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,  But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail  Unwillingly to school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern attempts to get away from the sheer historical facts of the Resurrection are, at best, based on a total misunderstanding. The whole Bible proclaims the need for, and the achievement of, a salvation that will remake creation, and it is just such a salvation, at once supernatural and historical, that was won on Easter Day. If the Resurrection narratives are [merely] a subtle way of convincing us that God still loves us, or that there is a life beyond death, they must be reckoned among the oddest and most ill-conceived stories ever written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57907]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood upon the hatches in the storm,   And when the dusky sky began to rob    My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,     I took a costly jewel from my neck,      A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,       And threw it toward thy land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the town clerk's office?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake -- a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community service is a big part of scouting and this is a good project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community service is a big part of scouting and this is a good project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37503]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing-Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7576]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item></channel></rss>