<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30104]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not a raw kind of talent. HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s got some sophistication to his basketball game, and I think he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39422]]></link><description><![CDATA[HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not a raw kind of talent. HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s got some sophistication to his basketball game, and I think he will progress quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until she smiled on me:    Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,     A well of love, a spring of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum toreceive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum toreceive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now begin; For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing runs  Close by the ground, to hear our conference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now begin; For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing runs  Close by the ground, to hear our conference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44807]]></link><description><![CDATA['Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;   Of form and aspect too magnificent    To be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230]]></link><description><![CDATA[All tuition rates are approved by the Board of Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll also have people on the Mon-Fayette Expressway (Route 43) to make sure people make the correct turns. Our main objective is to keep traffic moving efficiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45737</guid></item></channel></rss>