<?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 believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,   By--sending the wine round too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are indeed   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age    Are petrified forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,   He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that have taken on that look know where it's coming from. I'm not saying we invented it -- we drew influence from the Damned and the Misfits -- but it wasn't very popular when we started doing it. It's strange, but if you start worrying about stuff like that, it becomes less about being a songwriter and more about trying to control what's going on in some kind of scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have an excellent, long-standing relationship with Chile and look forward to working with the new president and her team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have an excellent, long-standing relationship with Chile and look forward to working with the new president and her team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712]]></link><description><![CDATA["You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take thee?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942</guid></item></channel></rss>