<?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[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52899]]></link><description><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' **********WinstonChurchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorisinguse of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (BritishPetroleum) in the last 100 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living on the Lawn is a privilege and a responsibility. We hope future residents will take it very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5596]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1325]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. They're selling the belief that their drug is superior, but they're not marketing superior drugs. If they want to improve the public's perception of their work, then they better improve their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long  That it's had it head bit off by it young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,   We start, for soul is wanting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705</guid></item></channel></rss>