<?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[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went to Connecticut and I met the cadets from the Coast Guard Academy because they read my book over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went to Connecticut and I met the cadets from the Coast Guard Academy because they read my book over the summer for class,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36762]]></link><description><![CDATA[For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,   Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is better than cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it would be a tough run for her and she will be 67 years old, after she used age against Morgenthau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect victory and you make victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a camp, ... so I didn't have the chance to be with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to build an event that obviously has the entertainment, but also build an outdoor festival flair where there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to build an event that obviously has the entertainment, but also build an outdoor festival flair where there's lots of things for people to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61425]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told;  Many a man his life hath sold;   But my outside to behold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2176]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13169]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44589</guid></item></channel></rss>