<?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[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669]]></link><description><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist of what they need to do once they get home to actually make those happen. They need to be able to walk away from this with everything they need to do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50273]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you haveof yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you wantto lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27600]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They get into the mind-set where they believe they can win every game. Tradition has a lot to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36082]]></link><description><![CDATA[They get into the mind-set where they believe they can win every game. Tradition has a lot to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14991]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change; we change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change; we change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one;   Nothing is fair or good alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12724]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From wine what sudden friendship springs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From wine what sudden friendship springs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are these poor habiliments,   Of which if you should here disfurnish me,    You take the sum and substance that I have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common   That men are merriest when they are from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out -- outsized and outspeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is responsible for what happened in the Balkans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36138]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36138</guid></item></channel></rss>