<?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[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influential Jewish groups will now be sensitive to Pakistan's problems particularly with India,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5704]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37863]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion of several strategic initiatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a no-brainer because my father played football,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do all things if he but wills them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do all things if he but wills them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52031]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33239]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true before   Prove false again? Two hundred more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43928]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art tempted, for the more thou art assailed by temptations, the greater friend and servant of God do I hold thee, and the greater love do I bear thee. Verily, I say to thee, let no man deem himself the perfect friend of God until he have passed through many temptations and tribulations... I am ready to endure patiently all things that my Lord would do with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845]]></link><description><![CDATA[UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2845</guid></item></channel></rss>