<?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[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence   Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I wear   On brows bald since my thirty years.    Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,     Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.      Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!       And I, so plain a man am I!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the outcome of a balance between the air we breath andanaerobes trying to stifle our aerobic dependence. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the outcome of a balance between the air we breath andanaerobes trying to stifle our aerobic dependence. In death, anaerobestake over and new life begins. Within the context of spiritual,emotional and cultural life this same scientific paradigm applies. So,enjoy the interlude between birth and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,   When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48510</guid></item></channel></rss>