<?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[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12306]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls had to play in the rain for most of the first nine holes and the wind was gusting for the whole day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8727]]></link><description><![CDATA[So runs the round of life from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mel Karmazin is meretricious.His Viacom is avariciousHis CBS is quite litigiousHis public nudity isplanned and vicious.His Likud Party isvengeful, vicious.It's time to exorcise thelegionswhich have entered Karmazinthrough spirit lesions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It wasn't until my wife's gynecologist called and congratulated me that I figured we were onto something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,   And though but few can serve, yet all may please;    On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,     A small unkindness is a great offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51758]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are his father by nature, I by counsel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32975]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25016]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my message. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23111]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What are kings and crowns to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48100]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased pariahs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300]]></link><description><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  If you here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor through inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do honour the very flea of his dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37005]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4687</guid></item></channel></rss>