<?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["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42117]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry about them because we are trying to improve here every day. We have the athletes to compete with anyone at this level. I really believe that. This team is not going to give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the 'Nutcracker?' Is this evidence of a stronger public reaction against their decision than they are willing to admit?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini   In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter  Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau   All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and that forces you to assume the worst every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425]]></link><description><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42032]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it can happen it to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the running joke in Miami, they were cutting me and recalling me so many times. I had six or seven termination letters, and there were guys who felt so bad for me they were picking my luggage up for me and putting it in my locker each time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36812]]></link><description><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19042]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world but rather to keep pace with the demand for our food. We've very methodically entered new markets and built in our existing markets based on the demand and what our opportunity has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear that the Fed will continue well into 2006 has been dramatically reduced, and that's why equities look so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear that the Fed will continue well into 2006 has been dramatically reduced, and that's why equities look so good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each man at his birth nature has given some fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50953]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50953</guid></item></channel></rss>