<?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[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing this [deal] does underscore is that the investment banking business has become a global business in a hurry and if you don't have a strong presence on both sides of the Atlantic you might as well not show up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can take control of that position if he would choose to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the newspapers have their own conflict of interest because they are protected by the businessmen, businessmen that Berlusconi has not been able to dominate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want an honest, sincere and intensive fight against terrorism from Pakistan in cooperation with Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46045]]></link><description><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of marriage is memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of marriage is memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife   With Nature, to outdo the life:    Oh, could he but have drawn his wit     As well in brass, as he has hit      His face, the print would then surpass       All that was ever writ in brass;        But since he cannot, reader, look         Not on his picture, but his book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very delicate situation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is seated in the hearts of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57407]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is seated in the hearts of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It helps to have someone in the same boat as you, ... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed. Plus it's easier because I don't have to worry about her motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stayfor awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever thesame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plant often removed cannot thrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item></channel></rss>