<?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[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18511]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks so much better when they smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're losing time. Time is working against us. I think we all pray and hope for a miracle, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're losing time. Time is working against us. I think we all pray and hope for a miracle, but this morning we're about to mark two weeks, and it's highly unlikely we're going to find anyone alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . .  And, when the echoes had ceased, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . .  And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19621]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, and the guy calls up and makes a joke about it. He said it was totally disarming. It was also totally brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give all the credit to their pitching, which held our offense to only one run. They just flat-out outplayed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt everwithout eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt everwithout eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude andfallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493]]></link><description><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of each and every one of our kids. All of them refused to lose. Even when they were outclassed they kept coming back and never gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64756]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64756</guid></item></channel></rss>