<?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[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there were some things that needed to be taken from public view after September 11. But we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there were some things that needed to be taken from public view after September 11. But we have seen, around the country, a number of cases where information has been taken down in the absence of good public discussion. Those discussions need to take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42117]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry about them because we are trying to improve here every day. We have the athletes to compete with anyone at this level. I really believe that. This team is not going to give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off last game (an 81-70 loss Thursday night to San Diego State), we didn't really throw it inside as much as we usually do. We wanted to make it a point to go inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36165]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well, did everything to win but conceded three strange goals. It's difficult to explain this defeat. Porto were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32025]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well, did everything to win but conceded three strange goals. It's difficult to explain this defeat. Porto were the better side, we created many chances to score. Sometimes the best team doesn't win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66758]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. [Lat., Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more;  Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pooled funds are difficult to pull off because you're hitting up people for money but giving them little control over how it's spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126]]></link><description><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can in general do more than blind force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties to decide. I am encouraged by what I've heard from you today, sir, that these issues are not to be prejudiced and should be mutually agreed by the parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40627</guid></item></channel></rss>