<?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[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used very sparingly. Good government evolves from trust and a willingness to work together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to have been here to see us get to the World Cup,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a jobapplication form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time. Everyone who tel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect the way that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect the way that we would have it be, rather than the way God has provided, which is infinitely better for us. As they lead us into the blind alleys of self-indulgence and escape from life, heresies pander to the most unworthy tendencies of the human heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42948]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't the best games we've played, but we played well enough to win. We've got a lot of work to do, and we're going to work hard tomorrow in practice; I guarantee that. ... We're getting a little lackadaisical, and that's going to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid riders that are going make the race fast. They aren't going to sit in the pack and have the slower (teams) stay around. From the start, this race is going to be played out to be one of the fastest races in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive  Whether I blush or no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive  Whether I blush or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34374</guid></item></channel></rss>