<?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'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series about the early church:   The early Christians... enjoyed the inestimable advantage of believing that the millennium was near, which precluded them from seeking to establish a beneficent regime in this world. In the time at their disposal, it was just not worth while. Perhaps the best hope of reviving the Christian religion would be to convince the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other dignitaries likewise, that the world will shortly be coming to an end. A difficult undertaking, I fear, notwithstanding much evidence pointing that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had to pick the top five courses of my entire experience, two of them were online. I know that with the right instructor and set-up, learning online can be just as fulfilling, if not more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398]]></link><description><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I knock at the Uttermost Gate.    Behind is life and its longing,     Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,      Beyond is the Infinite Morning       Of a day without a tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And do as adversaries do in law,— Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -The Taming of the Shrew. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And do as adversaries do in law,— Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667]]></link><description><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793]]></link><description><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,   Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57491</guid></item></channel></rss>