<?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['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3659]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701]]></link><description><![CDATA[And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along  Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,   Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible without too much damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our capital will be Jerusalem, and our state will not contain settlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our capital will be Jerusalem, and our state will not contain settlements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never judges you, and allows for you to grow and helps you along the way is a friend  that you should keep around for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. -N Smith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be timely wise;   With health all taste of pleasure flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell a tale to a dead man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and down my bench and see a lot of guys who have had gold medals around their necks. That's a big advantage in a game like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast is the way we like it. Fort Lupton's young, but this is the closest anyone has come to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast is the way we like it. Fort Lupton's young, but this is the closest anyone has come to us in a dual this season. It's good to get Drake back; it gives us a good lower half. And the night went pretty much as I expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,   And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652</guid></item></channel></rss>