<?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[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36698]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played too well. I also had some problems with my knee. But tomorrow it's going to be a different game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crude gained a lot last week and we are giving some of that back. The U.S. led a large attack in Iraq last week, one that wasn't unprecedented, but the media got a hold of it and the market reacted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers must have leave to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers must have leave to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630]]></link><description><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why most of us never got in trouble. We played all day. You'd only break to eat, if you had the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21989]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can beanything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything youset out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness ofpurpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  What think ye, is the Word of God to be fulfilled? Do you believe the Word of God? Do you believe what is fulfilled in the Word of God because it is fulfilled? or do you believe because God has said so? If you believe the past fulfillment because it is past, then you do not believe God. If you believe God, you must believe the future as well as the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus  Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;   Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19393]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22647]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348</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[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is not a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63096]]></link><description><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858]]></link><description><![CDATA[They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait. The time will never be just right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item></channel></rss>