<?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[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or band,   For dame that loves to rove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27562]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that they're only for kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This all happened pretty quickly. [Whittington] did not announce - which would be protocol - 'Hey, it's me, I'm coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39563]]></link><description><![CDATA[This all happened pretty quickly. [Whittington] did not announce - which would be protocol - 'Hey, it's me, I'm coming up.' He didn't do what he was supposed to do. So when a bird flushed and the vice president swung in to shoot it, Harry was where the bird was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of my role as a dad is to look at what kind of person he is. I have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of my role as a dad is to look at what kind of person he is. I have been remarkably pleased at how humble he is at this whole thing. I don't sense any kind of an ego or arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality sitting with gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, perseverance, hard work and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs in this community to gain a foothold on our streets. Our response will be swift, coordinated and certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. Somebody's responsible for that. This is nine years now of a man's life lost by no fault of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55500]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item></channel></rss>