<?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 learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. [Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2299]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62202]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,  Church, army, physic, law,   Its customs and its businesses,    Is no concern at all of his,     And says--what says he?--Caw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27509]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to otherwise I usually just have about one or two people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52765]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most countries in the Gulf do not have to be persuaded that a nuclear Iran is a threat to them. But they ask if the cure is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47079]]></link><description><![CDATA[El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32594]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the heart of an angry crowd, their enthusiasm soured suddenly into a growling muttering. He applied it confidently to a man who, under the inspiration of His friendship, had broken with his sorry past and his old selfish, unclean ways, and was doing what he could to put things right. Now that, He said, is what I call a saved man. Very solemnly He tells us that on the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked the questions we are expecting, but others that will puzzle and startle us. Those folk on the left hand were, as far as we hear, respectable folk; their business books were straight, their home life was kindly, they themselves were clean-living men and women: nothing whatever is laid to their charge excepting this, that they lived in a world needing their help and were too absorbed in something -- what it was, we are not told; it may have been their souls -- to give what aid they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22956]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item></channel></rss>