<?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[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12557]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38315]]></link><description><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38315</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[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</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[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No time like the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50613]]></link><description><![CDATA[No time like the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave, they're happy they can check it off their list. They can also see what other programs they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29149]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave, they're happy they can check it off their list. They can also see what other programs they qualify for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20570]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. [Lat., Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,  Iule ceratis ope Daedalea   Nititur pennis, vitreo daturus    Nomina ponto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary    And pitch our evils there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism in decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17694]]></link><description><![CDATA[God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23439]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq is an unjust war.(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..stated in articles written for NY Times.. printedin USA Today). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraq is an unjust war.(spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice..stated in articles written for NY Times.. printedin USA Today).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64495]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must not change   Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from    The secure shade of their own vines, to be     Scorched with the flames of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item></channel></rss>