<?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[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56194]]></link><description><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,   Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats    Instinctively have quit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can become you are already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can become you are already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10652]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter of this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked all week about hitting the ball to right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30576]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked all week about hitting the ball to right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it was the first time in our society that they noticed on the presidential level that there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it was the first time in our society that they noticed on the presidential level that there are also some forces other than the authorities, business and political parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full mind is an empty bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48257]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work things out with us in an effort to make things better, or to keep the relationship on a track of growth and fulfillment. There comes a point in time in some relationships that we must realize the only option that we have to live a good life is to let what is weighing us down in life go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of corresponding profitability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart:  She gives me cream with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart:  She gives me cream with all her might   To eat with apple-tart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could not tell you how many people are assigned (to work) in that area. (But) if one of them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could not tell you how many people are assigned (to work) in that area. (But) if one of them has (the information) and carries it back to his living area, it could be accessible to several hundred inmates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47727]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646</guid></item></channel></rss>