<?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[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48370]]></link><description><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full stature,   Absorbs the evil in its nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does he think I'm going to beat him? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does he think I'm going to beat him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they can feel whether   A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53840]]></link><description><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11123]]></link><description><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moche Crye and no Wull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moche Crye and no Wull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got to see himself in a situation where he was just as strong and perhaps even stronger than the other favorites. If there hadn't been that flat bit half way up the climb, I actually think he could have taken the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky,  Beheld by all, and everywhere,   Bright prototypes on high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14411]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48284</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[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing reflection of low morale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â consistency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â consistency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371</guid></item></channel></rss>