<?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[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30037]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run for governor next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palest ink is better than the best memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palest ink is better than the best memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare,  The desert were a paradise   If thou wert there, if thou were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It felt good to finally get the chance to play and show what I can do. If I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It felt good to finally get the chance to play and show what I can do. If I had to judge myself, I?d say it was fair, but around here, you never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59624]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19963]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think to the extent that it keeps them on their toes, it's a good thing. It certainly helps, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think to the extent that it keeps them on their toes, it's a good thing. It certainly helps, so long as they continue being peaceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19811]]></link><description><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft pity enters an iron gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand,  When first the thoughtful and the free,   Our fathers, trod the desert land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60625]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa to the Caucususand statetheir eternalallegianceto the Creator Sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To take the widow   Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;    And hardly shall I carry out my side,     Her husband being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2043]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invent nothing, I rediscover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invent nothing, I rediscover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot sit down and look and wait, because whatever they do today, it takes effect in six to 12 months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12576</guid></item></channel></rss>