<?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[We're starting the 2006 part of the season in dominating fashion and that's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're starting the 2006 part of the season in dominating fashion and that's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52330]]></link><description><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi parliament to complete the draft constitution in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15386]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum  Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23564]]></link><description><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;   But faint the flagging zephyr springs,    With dry Macadam on its wings,     And turns me "dust to dust."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51641]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath eaten me out of house and home. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251</guid></item></channel></rss>