<?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[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything else. We are not interested in creating a lot of stacking. We are protecting the investment our current partners have made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the season, that you just don't get on an hour show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few love to hear the sins they love to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that you have a former friend for foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48748]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that you have a former friend for foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a big rival. And it doesn't make a difference who's playing well and who's the better team because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30914]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a big rival. And it doesn't make a difference who's playing well and who's the better team because anybody can win. We're the better team and we're probably the more skilled team, but they play us tough. They test us and they always challenge us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whethera man is wise by his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21397]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whethera man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17707]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, when we are least alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57166]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, when we are least alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13623]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cheat the public for long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5821]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cheat the public for long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee 100 percent employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item></channel></rss>