<?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[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[heat from impending searches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38669]]></link><description><![CDATA[heat from impending searches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We just didn't come to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44137]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44137</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/60285]]></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/60285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48992]]></link><description><![CDATA[We frolic while 'tis May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9285]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;   Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40487]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really would like to see is lifetime supervision and GPS monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend,  Bids each on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend,  Bids each on other for assistance call,   Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21786</guid></item></channel></rss>