<?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[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is still growing, albeit at a more moderate pace than in the previous quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is still growing, albeit at a more moderate pace than in the previous quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495]]></link><description><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a minimum would probably be 1,000 samples across the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court and getting screens set for him. I wasn't used to that; it really caught me off-guard. But it's an experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will do whatever is required by those people (at the alcohol treatment facility). This is the first step of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30013]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will do whatever is required by those people (at the alcohol treatment facility). This is the first step of a long path for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61739]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54337]]></link><description><![CDATA[All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60197</guid></item></channel></rss>