<?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 don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goal without a plan is just a wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goal without a plan is just a wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12301]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday will never come and take you by the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61751]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.rnZig Ziglar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. What a selfish Dog! said one of them to his companions; he cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light tomorrow with today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47530</guid></item></channel></rss>