<?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 law of heaven and earth is life for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then from 2003 to now I developed myself, my driving style, and I grew up with the team to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34886]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then from 2003 to now I developed myself, my driving style, and I grew up with the team to be in this position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15040]]></link><description><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills   The wilderness profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con. Spread the word because Warner Bros. doesn't know what in hell to do with this movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reflects the very nature that we're changing directions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27455]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for today, I will let go of anger.Just for today, I will let go of worry.Today, I will count my many blessings.Today, I will do my work honestly.Today, I will be kind to every living creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</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[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night,  From his watch-tower in the skies,   Till the dappled dawn doth rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was truly a unique thing to see, and I'm so proud of her. It was like watching a real-life high jumper, not a student or a person just trying to score points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232]]></link><description><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18795</guid></item></channel></rss>