<?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[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you   'Tis rigor and not law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word we have on the radio is accurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1780]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7980]]></link><description><![CDATA[[C. S. Lewis] was leery of too many prayers that leave all the work to God and other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums are the cemeteries of the arts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Museums are the cemeteries of the arts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63894]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,   Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peer-to-peer technology has benefits, but it also carries many dangers, the most egregious of which is the potential for widespread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peer-to-peer technology has benefits, but it also carries many dangers, the most egregious of which is the potential for widespread and unauthorized piracy. Without the permission of the author of the work, who will be able to tell when personal use ends and piracy begins? It is the fundamental question of what is fair and right for the creators and those who made that creation possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46300]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck  Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb   The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch  The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb   Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the neon, repaint the marquee ... and we'll also have the front of the building lit up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37758]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, organized by Tucson's Border Action Network. In August 2004, BAN hosted a community forum where anger simply erupted.] People had been afraid to speak out, ... They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware   Of lightness in his speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no limit to our discussion. Everything is on the table. It is time to turn the page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30088]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no limit to our discussion. Everything is on the table. It is time to turn the page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ancient faith: what we needis here. And we pray, notfor new earth or heaven, but to bequiet in heart, and in eye,clear. What we need is here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48129</guid></item></channel></rss>