<?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[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love,passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love,passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30416]]></link><description><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories that I've experienced in golf,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41692]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145]]></link><description><![CDATA["A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station;  "United we stand--divided we fall!"   It made and preserves us a nation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2488]]></link><description><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont mene la charrue.    Mais, las de cultiver enfin     La terre labouree      L'une a detele le matin,       L'autre l'apres-dinee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm approaching it like it's my Finals, you've got like two, three games more -- if you put me out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm approaching it like it's my Finals, you've got like two, three games more -- if you put me out there, I am going to be ready. I'm looking real forward to these games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the difficulties I am encountering in my movements to the detention center, the Americans offered me a place to sleep. I turned down the offer to be in a camp that is set up in country ... they are occupying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising for travel and resorts virtually vanished with the war and those will trickle back, but there are other issues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising for travel and resorts virtually vanished with the war and those will trickle back, but there are other issues facing the stocks. Help wanted advertising has hit a 40-year bottom with the surge in unemployment and retail advertising continues to be soft with an uncertain consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Whoso goes seeking God and seeking aught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739  Whoso goes seeking God and seeking aught with God does not find God; but he who seeks God by himself in truth does not find God alone: all God affords he finds, as well as God. Art thou looking for God, seeking God with a view to thy personal good, thy personal profit? Then in truth thou art not seeking God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8396</guid></item></channel></rss>