<?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[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9903]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4458]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54898]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19242]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, help families place their children in better-performing schools, and focus on programs to bring higher-paying jobs to Pennsylvania and put Pennsylvania back on the right track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38034]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure on the unemployment rate, forcing it to continue to rise. By summer, we could have 6.4 percent unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our district, we?re teaching the younger grades in five buildings and they are too small to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our district, we?re teaching the younger grades in five buildings and they are too small to be able to accomplish the things we?re talking about doing here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results can't be excluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce agree   On what is pure morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard robins singing in areas of Beaumont. But you're probably going to have to wait until next winter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard robins singing in areas of Beaumont. But you're probably going to have to wait until next winter to see the flocks of robins come through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559</guid></item></channel></rss>