<?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 Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9431]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34888]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their red it never dies;    But Phyllida, my Phillida!     Her colour comes and goes;      It trembles to a lily,--       It wavers to a rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put it on at the right time and were able to get some good things out of it. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39727]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put it on at the right time and were able to get some good things out of it. You have to acknowledge a player the caliber of Ryan Soares. As well as he moves around and they look for him, we did a good job of finding him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52381</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[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a lot of people thought that he was going to be a productive hitter there. But he's moved on to a bigger market and he's done what he's done, and he deserves everything that he's getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. We've been working for many years on this project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. We've been working for many years on this project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18187]]></link><description><![CDATA[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59425]]></link><description><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night,  Melting the darkness, so their rising senses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night,  Melting the darkness, so their rising senses   Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle    Their clearer reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359</guid></item></channel></rss>