<?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[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just because of imagination about (Iran's) intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still will keep   A bower quiet for us, and a sleep    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Chuang Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33751]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17125]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,  Is there not rain enough in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens   To wash it white as snow?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such root she took,   And--like a sunflower by a brook,    With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12716</guid></item></channel></rss>