<?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[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850]]></link><description><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see them increasing their outlook for the world economy in terms of growth and we see that feed into Canada, it may justify another rate hike to 4.50.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next-generation soft-switch technology is in high demand as communications service providers develop and deploy IP networks. The Technology Assurance Labs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next-generation soft-switch technology is in high demand as communications service providers develop and deploy IP networks. The Technology Assurance Labs Shoot Out on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor will be a great place for service providers to compare the latest soft-switch products from some of the world's most innovative technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the impression the terms were coming together for them, but I don't know for sure. I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the impression the terms were coming together for them, but I don't know for sure. I think they are angling for an afternoon news conference. Whether it happens or not remains to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the ceasefire. If the intensity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the ceasefire. If the intensity of the war increases, there is no doubt they have developed a capability to strike in Colombo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53293]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he plays and the way he goes about his business that makes him our sparkplug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not what you call a run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June,  Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon,   When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand English to their side,   Or as a little snow, tumbled about,    Anon becomes a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2456]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2456</guid></item></channel></rss>