<?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[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some of them have been here since middle school, so they're comfortable with and trust each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54254]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499]]></link><description><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come in and you don't play the way you should it's frustrating, especially after a trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32952]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come in and you don't play the way you should it's frustrating, especially after a trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to develop a market mechanism and to try to diversify our energy sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38007]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to develop a market mechanism and to try to diversify our energy sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14862]]></link><description><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;  But made a trail all bent askew,   A crooked trail as all calves do.    . . . .     And men two centuries and a half      Trod in the footsteps of that calf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with iniquity?    If we would rightly scan,     It's not the times are bad, but man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth is the only evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is the only evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are some of the steps taken to make sure the Visa Waiver Program ( search ) is a safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are some of the steps taken to make sure the Visa Waiver Program ( search ) is a safe and effective way to letting people get into the United States, because obviously we don't want to choke off travel here altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletionsis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21451]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletionsis a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are right at a major turning point in fashion, ... definitely something to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36159]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are right at a major turning point in fashion, ... definitely something to watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18277</guid></item></channel></rss>