<?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[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soule needs few things, the body many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54094]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree,  Ne'er had been read, in story old,   Of maiden true betray'd for gold,    That loved, or was avenged, like me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47746]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28614]]></link><description><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom outweighs any wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29136]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25974]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on the -- Bright side of the road]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's money that can be used to help improve the rapid response. ... This would help save lives and property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's money that can be used to help improve the rapid response. ... This would help save lives and property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and questions, but also those of my own generation and even those of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is this what the Bible is really saying?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29918]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18847]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18847</guid></item></channel></rss>