<?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[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53683]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26018]]></link><description><![CDATA["Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is the child of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was raining so hard, and I couldn't see that much of the game, and it was cold and wet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was raining so hard, and I couldn't see that much of the game, and it was cold and wet, and I didn't bring a coat, so I left early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la infamia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652]]></link><description><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can become you are already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21928]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can become you are already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west wasn't won on salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at bo-peep    Did soon draw in agen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in the meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24245]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32990]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, the Indians were getting a lot of equipment for the gas centrifuge program from the same companies that were providing the same equipment to the Pakistanis. And some of the same people who have turned out to figure very prominently in the Khan network were involved in some of these sales to India,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half was frustrating. We definitely didn't match their intensity, but we certainly did in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half was frustrating. We definitely didn't match their intensity, but we certainly did in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61176]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57177]]></link><description><![CDATA[So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348</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[Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item></channel></rss>