<?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[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of the worst things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32424]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of the worst things you can do is be in Japan and demand a fork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our confidence isn't as good as it was in the beginning, but we're getting there. This win will help a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This individual was fortunate he was not ejected from his vehicle due to the fact he was wearing a seat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31872]]></link><description><![CDATA[This individual was fortunate he was not ejected from his vehicle due to the fact he was wearing a seat belt, ... We see so many accidents, especially where the vehicle rolls over, where the driver or occupants, who aren't properly restrained, get thrown from the vehicle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866]]></link><description><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. With him, he's either good or bad, and today he was able to address his problem. Before, if he got a bad hitter or two, things got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring   On the angler's trysting-tree?    Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me,     Are there buds on our willow-tree?      Buds and birds on our trysting tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very genuine, very humble. They really appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40167]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you have support from everyone, and everyone is on the same page. It's rare that it happens at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25727]]></link><description><![CDATA[After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21101]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the companies that raised venture money in 2005 won't be able to raise money in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36921]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were stepping out of the mosque and suddenly a big blast shook the ground, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were stepping out of the mosque and suddenly a big blast shook the ground,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One sole meaning still the same:    This is Truth, eternal Reason,     Which from Beauty takes its dress,      And serene through time and season       Stands aye in loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If not, it's going to be really hard finding someone to step into this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If not, it's going to be really hard finding someone to step into this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44846</guid></item></channel></rss>