<?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 had a dream, which was not all a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a dream, which was not all a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11455]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35217]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166]]></link><description><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let me quaff the foamy tide, And through the dance meandering glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sounded like somebody who would be capable of taking care of Melissa. I didn't like the idea of not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28990]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sounded like somebody who would be capable of taking care of Melissa. I didn't like the idea of not meeting her, but that's just the way it happened. ... I think of all the mistakes I made. It's too late to go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the world will wait long time for a progress and imagination equal to Tesla's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the world will wait long time for a progress and imagination equal to Tesla's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbour's glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship --or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the season is coming up, we're starting to see it. We really have got to start putting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the season is coming up, we're starting to see it. We really have got to start putting the pieces together. ... We should have put Indiana away 10 minutes into the second half. We just have to stay focused and go out there and play hard for all 40 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47325]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47325</guid></item></channel></rss>