<?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[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must,   The youth replies, I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54522]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31861]]></link><description><![CDATA[As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even like to use the world labor, it's just been all love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never understimate the heart of a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things please more, which are more expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things please more, which are more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What these (exclusive deals) do is create compelling reasons to revisit Best Buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35413]]></link><description><![CDATA[What these (exclusive deals) do is create compelling reasons to revisit Best Buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But me no buts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But me no buts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I was concerned about is it looked to me from the sideline like (Thomas) might have chopped Mark Campbell to cause the pileup, which is illegal. If he didn't do that, then the kid made a great play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company's intent was to cap their costs on health care, and the company came back to the union and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company's intent was to cap their costs on health care, and the company came back to the union and said that if your members want to stay with the insurance, they will have to pick up those increases. And there was no way members could afford to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29501]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The contests of disputing friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50861]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50861</guid></item></channel></rss>