<?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[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the market is and getting involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the highest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the highest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61287]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't let anyone talk about it. It's one of those things you never want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is now incompetent. His condition has worsened to the point where we cannot proceed without him regaining his competence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is now incompetent. His condition has worsened to the point where we cannot proceed without him regaining his competence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38398]]></link><description><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actively at the bargaining table, and we already have agreements with one-third of our work force, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41660]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actively at the bargaining table, and we already have agreements with one-third of our work force, and the terms are reasonable and fair. Obviously we're going to have similar agreements with ... these other unions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51888]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19494</guid></item></channel></rss>