<?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[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27481]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,   All benefits are there in common set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33065]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 percent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 percent on Friday, we will get embarrassed at home. If we don't come and run well, we'll be in a lot of trouble because there is a lot of talent coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37534]]></link><description><![CDATA[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any way they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her.It just seems natural. You and me against the world...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small bar, it's just great to get a national act like David and to be back better than ever after the storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19937]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a society in the deepest solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family life. She was able to get her kids off to the school bus and have her business wrapped by the time they came home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like Hazel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like Hazel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35901]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard to handicap teams at Triple-A, because you don't know what the league will be like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51599</guid></item></channel></rss>