<?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[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The troops have not been protected. We need to bring them home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1900]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50258]]></link><description><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,  Torn from thy parent-bird to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,  Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,   That might instrument of little men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46015</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[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did make it,   I do believe and take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54998]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36563]]></link><description><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clues are often very fleeting in nature. The question has become, 'How much can and should the government be doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clues are often very fleeting in nature. The question has become, 'How much can and should the government be doing, and what is the legality?' I'd be comfortable relinquishing some privacy for security. The question is, where is the equilibrium point?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23037]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can convince people with money that, yes, you're spending $20 more here, but we offer products you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can convince people with money that, yes, you're spending $20 more here, but we offer products you can't get elsewhere, perhaps it will work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,— Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item></channel></rss>