<?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[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better lose a jest than a friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64850]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without physicians, hospital board and staff members, city council ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all different stakeholder groups consistently working together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although we as Muslims hold freedom of speech as one of the unalienable rights of human beings, we believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although we as Muslims hold freedom of speech as one of the unalienable rights of human beings, we believe that press has the utmost responsibility to exercise restraint when it comes to the basic beliefs of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44845]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of moving accidents by flood and field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of moving accidents by flood and field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need strength to let go of something. What you reallyneed is understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him an inviting target for liberals and Democrats alike. It goes with the territory. He understands that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54748]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item></channel></rss>