<?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[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. [Fr., Moi, je serai autocrate: c'est mon metier. Et le bon Dieu me pardonnnera: c'est son metier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's a whole, entire different crowd. A lot of times it's according to the production. Some attract a younger group and some attract old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conquerer is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49271]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12335]]></link><description><![CDATA[International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38892]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57754]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1422]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653]]></link><description><![CDATA[if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a tear,    Seeing more harmony     In her bright eye,      Than now you hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</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[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item></channel></rss>