<?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[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16184]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45027]]></link><description><![CDATA[That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade,   Then let example be obey'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23503]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588]]></link><description><![CDATA[To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9308]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam  Simplex munditiis?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18592]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam  Simplex munditiis?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13557]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle   If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle   If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some mismatch situations, throwing some crossing routes underneath, trying to isolate him on linebackers and situations like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tires only those who do not have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tires only those who do not have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is too late, they have a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24473]]></link><description><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to stay in touch with the leaders without taking any risks and dropping too much time. It was a good day for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969</guid></item></channel></rss>