<?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[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hygiene is two thirds of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hygiene is two thirds of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27226]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60354]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where we stand .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new age cannot live on naturalism or on secularism. Life becomes sterile and futile without the depth and power which come from participation in eternal realities. But this new age cannot any more successfully live on religious faiths that are out of harmony with known truth, or that hang loose in the air, cut apart from the fundamental intellectual culture of the age. The hour has struck for the serious business of rediscovering the foundations, and of interpenetrating all life and thought with the truths and realities of a victorious religious faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just shook his head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29117]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just shook his head,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to treat every game like a playoff game right now because they are. I think the guys have, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37356]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to treat every game like a playoff game right now because they are. I think the guys have, and I think we'll continue that way. We have a lot of confidence that we are going to get in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15894</guid></item></channel></rss>