<?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[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16510]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20361</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[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51063]]></link><description><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25144</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[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,   Behold their tears and hear their cries!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57965</guid></item></channel></rss>