<?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[I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19563]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detrimentof the wellbeing of the Palestiniansspoken on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie   Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun also shines on the wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun also shines on the wicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support a national notification requirement. But we also need to give companies protection so that if it's obvious they are trying to keep data safe and something happens anyway, they shouldn't be subject to lawsuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39314]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and there was nothing derogatory or any hesitation on our part in moving forward with supporting this decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64999]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be smart. The easy days are over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31634]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain;  And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,   Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10864]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words, and of which His followers saw in His voluntary death a crowning manifestation? And remember that even belief in the love of God will do us no good unless it awakes answering love in ourselves -- unless it adds to our hatred of the sin which separates us from God and increases our love of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22450]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,   Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,    With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64601]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in the driver's seat anymore. But we can go out there and perform our best next weekend. It feels terrible, and I hope we don't feel like this again for the rest of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1106</guid></item></channel></rss>