<?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 am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan to begin a thorough national search for a new coach immediately. I am confident that we will find the right fit as we move forward to renew men's basketball at Duquesne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36012]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to piece together the last few days, hours of this woman's life. [The former doctor] is a person of interest at this point. We would like to speak to him about the fact we found a dead body in his house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37393]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, and someone else might not know where it's going. But they know where it's going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33386]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a market that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41635]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a market that is tougher to target than other segments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item></channel></rss>