<?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[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51696]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men, at most, differ as heaven and earth; But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dictates separates himself from others. Somalia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no business living through that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no business living through that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find consistency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!    Christ is risen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world but rather to keep pace with the demand for our food. We've very methodically entered new markets and built in our existing markets based on the demand and what our opportunity has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 points,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way it has been all season long. We get off to a good start but fall behind after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30962]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way it has been all season long. We get off to a good start but fall behind after we are forced into several poor match-ups because of injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count on her when you're out there on the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intellectual improvement arises from leisure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb  By slow degrees, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb  By slow degrees, by more and more,   The cloudy summits of our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking for. ... I need to get in and out of cuts ASAP. I need to be as good at that as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701</guid></item></channel></rss>