<?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[She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30236]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12485]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is going down to the beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest concern among employers is figuring out how they'll know if you're productive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest concern among employers is figuring out how they'll know if you're productive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we loved to be there and it did have a great old personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  By giving humans freedom of will, the Creator has chosen to limit His own power. He risked the daring experiment of giving us the freedom to make good or bad decisions, to live decent or evil lives, because God does not want the forced obedience of slaves. Instead, He covets the voluntary love and obedience of sons who love Him for Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that stepped-up actions like those we take today will convince broadcasters that they cannot ignore their responsibility to serve the public interest and to avoid the broadcast of indecent material over the public airwaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30197]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to pull that string tight at one time through all of them, we'd make a lot of headway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,   And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a Christian has a strong sense of his individuality, never of his unity with God. Expressed more sharply, he has a strong sense of the Creator-creature distinction, never of merging or absorption. Or, to put it more sharply still, a Christian has a sense of his moral sin and not just of his metaphysical smallness in the face of the beyond. The dilemma for man is not who he is but what he has done. His predicament is not that he is small, but that he is sinful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh!  The bitter wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh!  The bitter wind makes not the victory vain.   Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But throw in a very visible company lowering its guidance going forward and the focus shifts back to the same problems of an uncertain economy, uncertain earnings and the Middle East problem, which has not changed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37133</guid></item></channel></rss>