<?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[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29725]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of the craziness of the time, ... He was our historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of faith in my players. They have to believe in themselves. We have to be the doers, not takers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just to give us a chance to blow off steam at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41757]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just to give us a chance to blow off steam at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15189]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16367]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57540]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to turn my back on him but he always managed to win me over. I know now that I am weak-willed and that I should have moved on with my life but what can I say? He had such a strong hold over me, it was hard for me to deny him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511</guid></item></channel></rss>