<?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[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world that the people of Iraq will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're only truly great who are truly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45422]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56193]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear!   Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day    Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37850]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. But eight hours on a bus? That's crazy man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duty cannot exist without faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duty cannot exist without faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and I should have stopped more pucks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14603</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[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5370]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of things that could have gone into it, so to speculate would be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20596</guid></item></channel></rss>