<?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[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despatch is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, and as a result, someone died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157]]></link><description><![CDATA[White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329]]></link><description><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice have to have a name for the park. We've just been calling it the old bridge approach. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31706]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice have to have a name for the park. We've just been calling it the old bridge approach. It will be a nice addition to the park system in a real visible area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2278]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of the things he has said. He keeps saying it will be a war, but he has got me more fired up than I've been for any fight and we'll see how he copes when I meet him in the middle of the ring. I think I'm too good and too hot for him to handle. He's never been at this level before and he's in for a shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is supposed to be great. They say it's going to be the nicest day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is supposed to be great. They say it's going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21073]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guys don't think Justin lifts hard, then we test and he's extremely strong for his weight. His max has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guys don't think Justin lifts hard, then we test and he's extremely strong for his weight. His max has gone up 50 pounds in just about everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14279]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like anything else. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. Excessive throwing never hurts a pitcher's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like anything else. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. Excessive throwing never hurts a pitcher's arm; it's the lack of throwing that hurts the arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59838]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of falsepropaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has outstanding athletic ability and great hands. We used him at every position you can imagine on the football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37912]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has outstanding athletic ability and great hands. We used him at every position you can imagine on the football field. He played quarterback, running back, wide receiver, linebacker, safety, wherever we needed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37912</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[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item></channel></rss>