<?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[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is an arsenal of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is an arsenal of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60039]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We now know that [this issue] is very important to them and we know a large majority of them want to gradually reduce the number of troops that we have in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5792]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,   May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,    Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;     Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,      No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,       Will dare to soil her virgin purity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45315]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a truck and forced to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead Grays bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how well things are going. This is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the next six months is when I think it will be hairy. That's when we start instituting group policy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond the next six months is when I think it will be hairy. That's when we start instituting group policy. For instance, some school districts may not have the bandwidth to handle group policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be blinde, then to see ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47884]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47884</guid></item></channel></rss>