<?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[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three can hold their peace, if two be away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61128]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make war that we may live in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should use praise to recognize what one is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their claim was to target this poor man and four of my brothers. The whole world discovered the lies as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their claim was to target this poor man and four of my brothers. The whole world discovered the lies as the Americans fight Islam and the Muslims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462]]></link><description><![CDATA[O my prophetic soul! My uncle?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will help stability in Afghanistan and the whole region ... and also in the reconstruction efforts of our people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had to face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had to face the question of do you continue or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is in the details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is in the details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And one refusal no rebuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20797]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20797</guid></item></channel></rss>