<?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[I've never got to the bottom of streaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47442]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is God's minister,    And labors for some good     By us not understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42188]]></link><description><![CDATA[This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... To keep it classified simply because it might embarrass the agency is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47120]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we're seeing now in the market are multimedia phones. It's clear that this isn't a fad. The cell phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30613]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we're seeing now in the market are multimedia phones. It's clear that this isn't a fad. The cell phone is becoming a different device.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51058]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64549]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34098]]></link><description><![CDATA[These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Ad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple things, like how to hold a stick properly and defensive coverage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29266]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ways to solve the problem as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  But sons who are more generously and candidly treated by their fathers do not hesitate to offer them incomplete and halfdone and even defective works, trusting that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted by their fathers, even though they have not quite achieved what their fathers intended. Such children ought we to be, firmly trusting that our services will be approved by our most merciful Father, however small, rude, and imperfect these may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone canstart from now and make a brand new end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth   Some monstrous malefactor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12759</guid></item></channel></rss>