<?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[One learns to itch where one can scratch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/572]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns to itch where one can scratch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of the heart is absurd]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072]]></link><description><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. -Garrison Keillor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61673]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore   Were on the new world set ashore,    He made it next his chief design     To plant and propagate a vine,      Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd       Far greater number, on dry ground,        Of wretched mankind, one by one,         Than all the flood before had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51613]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who spares the wicked injures the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576</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[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried before the bar of the Eternal, and found wanting? Nor can any nation survive, or re-establish lasting peace, if it rests on those foundations on which contemporary nations have been built, our own included. What are those crumbling foundations? Conceit, self-will, denial of discipline, self-expressionism, secularism, this worldliness, greed, entrenched privilege, defiance of God's desire. On base absurdities have we built. Have we now moral courage to face our common sin, or are we content to trust in one form of armed wickedness to overcome the evils of another form of the same mad folly? Merely by smashing our enemies we shall not remake the world. By Beelzebub no devils are cast out... (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the cages and coach (Bob) Todd said something to freshman Zach Hurley. What he said clicked in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the cages and coach (Bob) Todd said something to freshman Zach Hurley. What he said clicked in my head. All our bats finally woke up. It seemed like we were hit or miss the last five, six or seven games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189]]></link><description><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55280]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24630]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10244]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38059]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints became more frequent, it was a sign the contractor was having some serious problems and would be unable to fulfill their obligations. That is when it reached the point to protect the commission's interest and take the steps necessary to get the project finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38059</guid></item></channel></rss>