<?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[They should calculate what their rate would be if adjusted in today's market and compare that with today's fixed-rate market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35326]]></link><description><![CDATA[They should calculate what their rate would be if adjusted in today's market and compare that with today's fixed-rate market and assess their personal situation. Do they have adequate funds to reduce or pay off their mortgage at the end of the adjustment period?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5260</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[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. The ground upon which good character rests is the very same ground from which man's work derives its value, namely, a mind wholly turned to God. Verily, if you were so minded, you might tread on a stone and it would be a more pious work than if you, simply for your own profit, were to receive the Body of the Lord and were wanting in spiritual detachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice  To our own lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52125]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be  Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be  Our chastisement or recompense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still a rookie!' But it was a good experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is going great in our area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is going great in our area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give what you want. The more you believe in the process, the more you will attract towards you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item></channel></rss>