<?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[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by these rather unjustified increases in interest rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27432]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores  This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23999]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores  This gain of our best glory shall be sent,   T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?    What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident     May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39088]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On behalf of the board of education, I offer congratulations for this wonderful recognition, ... We are proud of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38329]]></link><description><![CDATA[On behalf of the board of education, I offer congratulations for this wonderful recognition, ... We are proud of the music program in the district. It is an exemplary program, an exemplary school and an exemplary district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy. It's one way of being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its tunes amongst the leaves?    Oh, is it from the waters,     Or from the long, tall grass?      Or is it from the hollow rocks       Through which its breathings pass?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14851]]></link><description><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always telling our federal agencies and contractors that if they bring work to Hawaii, they need to hire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always telling our federal agencies and contractors that if they bring work to Hawaii, they need to hire Hawaii residents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil,  Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537</guid></item></channel></rss>