<?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 thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3773]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5702]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By time and place,    Till not a woe the bleak world see,     But finds her grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some of them have been here since middle school, so they're comfortable with and trust each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50961]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way for more to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, [It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro   Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, because we're locked into a number, is we may have to make cuts. If we start bumping up against the educational specifications, that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone looks at the records and talks about how this team plays so many sub-.500 teams and this team plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks at the records and talks about how this team plays so many sub-.500 teams and this team plays so many teams above .500, and it's all a load of crap. You've got to go out and win your games no matter what anyone else does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some falls the means are happier to rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some falls the means are happier to rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21830]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item></channel></rss>