<?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[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was hard for those players to sit back and watch. They were ready to get back on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was hard for those players to sit back and watch. They were ready to get back on the court by the time Saturday came around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468]]></link><description><![CDATA[War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to get back on track. Especially against what I think is always a tough team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to get back on track. Especially against what I think is always a tough team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I promise you love. Time will not take that away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</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 usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertex shares may not be for the faint-hearted at these price levels. However, the hepatitis C derby is just that: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertex shares may not be for the faint-hearted at these price levels. However, the hepatitis C derby is just that: a race. Should Vertex not stumble or encounter unforeseen obstacles prior to approval, $35 will wind up looking like an early exit point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing  This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing  This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew,  And now, by jing, it's friz!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation of their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are open to those who want peace, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are open to those who want peace,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaming industry is notoriously paranoid. It was easier for me to be wearing a gun within an arm's reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaming industry is notoriously paranoid. It was easier for me to be wearing a gun within an arm's reach of the president of the United States than get approval to carry a firearm in a casino.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50731</guid></item></channel></rss>