<?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[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the kind of publishing we want to do. Further, we are supporters of the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29606]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of publishing we want to do. Further, we are supporters of the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959]]></link><description><![CDATA[...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth,  Help me this once, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth,  Help me this once, that France may get the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the best card in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going to be prepared to do mop-up duty.' I don't think we would have won. I think they would have had an unprepared quarterback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26954]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6007]]></link><description><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap metal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63095]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they haven't complied with the legislation, it's an honest mistake, and we will comply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they haven't complied with the legislation, it's an honest mistake, and we will comply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item></channel></rss>