<?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 highest condition takes rise in the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46572]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul,  Each choosing each through all the weary hours,   And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,     Into one beautiful and perfect whole;      And life's long night is ended, and the way       Lies open onward to eternal day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, you're not going to make new highs in the market as long as we have uncertainty in terms of interest rates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.   O Britain! infamous for suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor rubberendi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44433]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor rubberendi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--   Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4095]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You said in [the preliminary hearing] that it looked like the gun flipped past her onto the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You said in [the preliminary hearing] that it looked like the gun flipped past her onto the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19355]]></link><description><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36231]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with their rights under prevailing laws and regulations,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300]]></link><description><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49278]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la tete d'un livre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24009</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[If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item></channel></rss>