<?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[Culture is one thing and varnish is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's obviously a ton of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One guy isn't going to make that big of a difference. We have to try and find guys who want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32487]]></link><description><![CDATA[One guy isn't going to make that big of a difference. We have to try and find guys who want to put their helmets in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39144]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there playing football. That's what you want to do. Just be out there on the field. Whatever position they put me at, I'll play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did refuse it:   And he that brought it would not use it,    And he that hath it doth now know     Whether he hath it yea or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring  Letters cowslips on the hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10544]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring  Letters cowslips on the hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/80]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/80</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it was really like at Ground Zero from the perspective of the rescue and recovery workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40055]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âcalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eye sees, the other feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60859]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eye sees, the other feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32918]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing months. The longer this goes on, the more pressure on candidates from both parties to discuss how they will clean up the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14125]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18285]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27189]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27189</guid></item></channel></rss>