<?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 conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45337]]></link><description><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17144]]></link><description><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're on a mission right now. I thought we played very well defensively today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36084]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're on a mission right now. I thought we played very well defensively today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870]]></link><description><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817]]></link><description><![CDATA[List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,  Far off and faint, and melting into air,   Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again!    Those louder cries give notice that the bird,     Although invisible as Echo's self,      Is wheeling hitherward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63620]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday  They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday  They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made things difficult for him now. There had been days when he had been too hectoring or domineering -- so, at least, these impossible people had said, though he himself denied it still. At all events, protesting to Rome, they had won the Emperor's ear, and humbled their governor. And that must not happen again. Ah, me! Is not this life of ours a fearsome thing? Take care! take care! for if you sin that sin, be sure that somehow you will pay for it -- and, it may be, at how hideous a price! So Pilate found in his day; so you, too, will find it in ours... Only God knows what may come out of that, if you should give way to it. Pilate was curt and domineering to the Jews one day. And it was because of that, months later, his unwilling hands set up the cross of Christ: unwilling -- but they did it. Take you care! for sin is very merciless. If you have had the sweet, [sin] will see to it that you quaff the bitter to the very dregs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again  To die before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58250]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again  To die before you please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never apologize! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never apologize!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12796</guid></item></channel></rss>