<?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[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing a fine job. This shift out of distribution is an ideal fit for J.P. Morgan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31554]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15148]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made; they come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48727]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be burieddeeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to itsgenerative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of timeand with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thoughtunceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all yourfaculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no weapons of mass destruction and the whole world knows that but Bush wants to impose his hegemony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no weapons of mass destruction and the whole world knows that but Bush wants to impose his hegemony on the world and subject Iraq to his rule,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, "Looking for gold, ya durn fool." He'd say, "Your pick is gold," and I'd say, "Well, that was easy." Good joke, huh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark of the 3.1-mile 5K), ... When you hit (the bottom of the hill) you've got to go, or you're going to lose time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1824</guid></item></channel></rss>