<?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[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47360]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're senior-loaded, and we have a ton of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're senior-loaded, and we have a ton of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care  And all the long year through the heir   Of joy and sorrow,    Methinks that there abides in thee     Some concord with humanity,      Given to no other flower I see       The forest through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46017]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told Thomas to take some of the velocity of the ball, and he started throwing strikes. His form was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30574]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told Thomas to take some of the velocity of the ball, and he started throwing strikes. His form was a little bit off. But he'll be alright. He just needs more reps in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation makes one what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation makes one what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34127]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a time when eligibility and services are being reduced in order to save money, an expansion of services for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38940]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a time when eligibility and services are being reduced in order to save money, an expansion of services for people who aren't eligible for the program is not under consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is no time for staring about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is no time for staring about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and came back. We could've folded up shop after that goal in the first minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.  By'r Lady, he is a good musician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile and sweetly sing.    Smile--though I shall not be near thee;     Sing--though I shall never hear thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not be a chip the richer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not be a chip the richer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only in a Person, never in a doctrine. Faith is not the holding of correct doctrine, but personal fellowship with the living God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bluebird carries the sky on his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537</guid></item></channel></rss>