<?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["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there's still a long ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there's still a long ways to go with the legislation, but a large step has been taken by the majority leader today ... and I admire the majority leader for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52576]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?  Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;   So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46864]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/432]]></link><description><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know whether we would find another leader for the council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60674]]></link><description><![CDATA[They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to play less physical and knock the ball around more than we were before playing Arapahoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to play less physical and knock the ball around more than we were before playing Arapahoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to make it well/   My mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better atthe top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better atthe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59489]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and reason strong,   For his advantage still did wake and sleep.    To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,     He had the dialect and different skill,      Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59489</guid></item></channel></rss>