<?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[They will swear black is white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will swear black is white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and wewho fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are at enmity with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are at enmity with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23443]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up to. They purposefully set us up to admire and even covet something we can never have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the mother of foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28051]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and hislimitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,you see, humor is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say it's confidence. I think last year I lacked certain fundamentals. I was inconsistent with my swing. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say it's confidence. I think last year I lacked certain fundamentals. I was inconsistent with my swing. I've worked on correcting those flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they had that one big inning. We are still playing well right now; we should be happy to be 9-2. We beat these guys two out of three and now we need to look ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34982]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17898</guid></item></channel></rss>