<?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[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60980]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41661]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're walking from the Broadhurst, those eight minutes make a huge difference. They could be the difference between a hectic end to a night on the town and a leisurely one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31008]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we have not yet launched a probe into the report. We are still focusing on the investigation into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29534]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we have not yet launched a probe into the report. We are still focusing on the investigation into the current graft case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way out is always through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way out is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30203]]></link><description><![CDATA[An increasing number of middle income Americans are benefiting from the rising value of their stocks and mutual funds, and they have a stake in our economy, ... Middle income Americans need a capital gains tax cut and I intend to give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisibleintelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is alsoflowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisibleintelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is alsoflowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility educates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility educates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,   Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;  But who the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54454]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;  But who the pretender is, or who is King--   God bless us all--that's quite another thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item></channel></rss>