<?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[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4736]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63479]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons should be only the hands of the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away athis rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it wasnot that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman the leader of the enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman the leader of the enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally would like things to settle down before we . . . start monkeying around with something that we don't understand the long-range consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able to avoid it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My personal feeling is weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31139]]></link><description><![CDATA[My personal feeling is weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down for a long time, ... I just donÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t think itÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s sound public policy in the times we live in now. IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d rather have a bank account so if something hits us and hits us hard, we have got a fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51820]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they [teams] don't call me ... wow, I might retire. That would be like a real hit to me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32697]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they [teams] don't call me ... wow, I might retire. That would be like a real hit to me because that's them telling you they don't think you can play any more. I'll wait and see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual shelters are being run very well, with thousands of very big-hearted, generous volunteers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual shelters are being run very well, with thousands of very big-hearted, generous volunteers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the Adam from the fall;   In you the Future as the Past is given--    Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--     Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,      Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20180]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. When you could keep them out of their chairs, that's when you knew you won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22184</guid></item></channel></rss>