<?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[Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  It is necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  It is necessary to die, but nobody wants to; you don't want to, but you are going to, willy-nilly. A hard necessity that is, not to want something which can not be avoided. If it could be managed, we would much rather not die; we would like to become like the angels by some other means than death. "We have a building from God," says St. Paul, "a home not made with hands, everlasting in heaven. For indeed we groan, longing to be clothed over with our dwelling from heaven; provided, though we be found clothed, and not naked. For indeed we who are in this dwelling place groan, being burdened; in that we do not wish to be stripped, but to covered over, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life." We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: "This way, please." Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a native of Wisconsin, he knows our state. We are getting a very well-rounded and bright person to join our staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44985]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: ... because self-love always magnifies our injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47869]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33905]]></link><description><![CDATA[personal attachment to the upper Chattooga.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21452]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to the crowd, and his speech was fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61780</guid></item></channel></rss>