<?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[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601]]></link><description><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly more-than-expected margin weakness and lower cash flow is unlikely to be taken well. Our sell rating is maintained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter [hovered over] the assembled group.] I thought, 'How did we come to this?' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. [Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans le ciel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that was very near its time of change. TheChrysalis moved its tail, and thus attracted the attention of the Ant,who then saw for the first time that it was alive. Poor, pitiableanimal! cried the Ant disdainfully. What a sad fate is yours!While I can run hither and thither, at my pleasure, and, if I wish,ascend the tallest tree, you lie imprisoned here in your shell, withpower only to move a joint or two of your scaly tail. The Chrysalisheard all this, but did not try to make any reply. A few days after,when the Ant passed that way again, nothing but the shell remained.Wondering what had become of its contents, he felt himself suddenlyshaded and fanned by the gorgeous wings of a beautiful Butterfly.Behold in me, said the Butterfly, your much-pitied friend! Boastnow of your powers to run and climb as long as you can get me tolisten. So saying, the Butterfly rose in the air, and, borne alongand aloft on the summer breeze, was soon lost to the sight of theAnt forever.Appearances are deceptive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn!  Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn!  Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil;   Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to train the team before our definitive car reaches the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17306]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is more vulnerable to Islam than the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great effect on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foole makes a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foole makes a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more paine to doe nothing then something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15448</guid></item></channel></rss>