<?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[There never was a good war or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45915]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have great brands in this company and the philosophy is the corporate name shouldn't overshadow the brands but enhance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have great brands in this company and the philosophy is the corporate name shouldn't overshadow the brands but enhance it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44100]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any would not work, neither shall he eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48572]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any would not work, neither shall he eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts,he holds the key to every situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171]]></link><description><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.   Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready with my candies and my rockets and praying to Allah that Sharon dies. We have prepared a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready with my candies and my rockets and praying to Allah that Sharon dies. We have prepared a celebratory barrage of rockets ready to fire into Israel on the occasion of the death of our enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability to draw the maps themselves they can carve out districts that are very precisely drawn to favor their future political interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34706]]></link><description><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15862]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633]]></link><description><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item></channel></rss>