<?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[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[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64796]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.Keep me on a short leash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57267]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess our soul   Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9553]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9553</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://maxioms.com/maxiom/6940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59020]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrity of the list depends on the information districts input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrity of the list depends on the information districts input.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52343]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52343</guid></item></channel></rss>