<?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[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21672]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that watches, everything is revealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44791]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that watches, everything is revealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015]]></link><description><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,   He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends,    That without any danger of a riot, he     Might for long lying make himself amends;      And singing as he sung in his warm youth,       Agree to a short armistice with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20893]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--   Creation's blot, creation's blank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6075]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our suppliers have access to what's moving and what our customers are doing, this is to their advantage. They can anticipate demand a lot better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ogre had a great game, and my bunch is growing up. I thought they grew up as a team tonight when Pate went out of the game. Burton made a run and took the lead, and we responded back. I was proud of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say Islam is a warlike religionmust ask if Christianity has been as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life free of addictions. Most addicts don't want to be addicts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,  Nor how, so we die well; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11179]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,  Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so   Need lamentation for him?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we know the difference between flowers and weeds, we are not fit to take care of a garden. It is not enough to have truth planted in our minds. We must learn and labor to keep the ground clear of thorns and briars, follies and perversities, which have a wicked propensity to choke the word of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm doing very well, soon to be good as new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm doing very well, soon to be good as new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9768]]></link><description><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361</guid></item></channel></rss>