<?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[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarterback is really good; he does some good stuff without a doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarterback is really good; he does some good stuff without a doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers are busy teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the gods do evil then they are not gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57056]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the gods do evil then they are not gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46457]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long remembered beggar was his guest,   Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable like that, it's very hard and it creates offense for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37492]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One needs is to have at least three drivers competing for the title at each race. This opens out the field and there is much more interest from the spectators and fans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64285]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgives to the degree that one loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38344]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19625]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;  Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,   By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!   Made answer to my word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51500]]></link><description><![CDATA[For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight   With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,    How grateful will appear her dawning rays!     As favours unexpected doubly please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63829]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3732</guid></item></channel></rss>