<?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[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50895]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought fills immensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought fills immensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers  To Arno's myrtle border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8807]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53207]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57130]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over and all things are righted,   God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little we heed the tempest drear, While music, mirth, and social cheer,  Speed on their wings the passing year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little we heed the tempest drear, While music, mirth, and social cheer,  Speed on their wings the passing year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.  And that's a big mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.  And that's a big mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52277]]></link><description><![CDATA[...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31233]]></link><description><![CDATA[That inventory has increased, but they're also selling fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in Bossier City became full.] We will house the overflow from CenturyTel, ... Right now they're at 55 to 60 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12053]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that follows intellect can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22884</guid></item></channel></rss>