<?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[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38537]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none?   If he had not liv'd for thee,    Thou hadst died most wretchedly     And two deaths had been thy fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for it. It builds up your confidence when you work hard at something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ... the unions and the special interests that listen to her and have them recognize they are destroying jobs and opportunities in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have the same kind of thing people can see in a strip mall somewhere or in a theme park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750]]></link><description><![CDATA[An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more confidence in ourselves. We have seen that hard work pays off. We're not overconfident. Just confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more confidence in ourselves. We have seen that hard work pays off. We're not overconfident. Just confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37530]]></link><description><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12760]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune   Or to take arms against a sea of troubles    And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--     No more--and by a sleep to say we end      The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks       That flesh is heir to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51832]]></link><description><![CDATA[They succeed, because they think they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56308]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41104]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with the ensuing era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert played a role in our daughter's safe return. It's better to have [the system] conceived and in place and working for us. So many people called us during those terrifying hours and wanted to help. The AMBER Alert system enables friends and even complete strangers to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45141</guid></item></channel></rss>