<?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[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36168]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety is the spice of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety is the spice of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of power is responsibility for the public good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars of old,   Ring in the thousand years of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there was a problem in determining how much money was missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10168]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,--  O, they fish with all nets   In the School of Coquettes!    When her brooch she forgets     'Tis to show her new collar;      In the School of Coquettes       Madam Rose is a scholar!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11421]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item></channel></rss>