<?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 world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship banner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship banner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50880]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36047]]></link><description><![CDATA[That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29338</guid></item></channel></rss>