<?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[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10473]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8901]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a very real structural shift, primarily in manufacturing employment, as a result of outsourcing and earlier capital investment that has increased productivity. They're making employment act differently in this upturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again, ... Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again, ... Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys who are the big names so important?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge   Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27472]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and its up to me and a half mexican to stop him!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48839]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them call it mischief; Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them call it mischief; Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not any different medicine. It?s simply a different tool to deliver that medicine. And you shouldn?t put any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40481]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not any different medicine. It?s simply a different tool to deliver that medicine. And you shouldn?t put any artificial requirements on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are those who are willing todiscipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, theirefficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they takeinto their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing interms of championship living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No trumpet-blast profound The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;  No bloody streamlet stained   Earth's silver rivers on the sacred morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for such a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37938]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - we didn't have time to second-guess what we were doing and sanitise it into a more middle-ground story. When it aired it ended up getting three times the audience they expected. It was mind-numbing - I just couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So clear of victory,    As he, defeated, dying,     On whose forbidden ear      The distant strains of triumph       Break agonized and clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.  The little fishes' answer was   "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item></channel></rss>