<?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[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17572</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 have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. - The Lonely Crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is growing in leaps and bounds and we feel good about that. We want to expand on that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is growing in leaps and bounds and we feel good about that. We want to expand on that and help the city keep growing in a positive way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4461]]></link><description><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33029]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian and Carlton best-and-fairest winner in 1999, is believed to have told the club that he intends to retire but has been persuaded by Sheedy to reconsider.] Sheeds wanted him to stay and even James Hird spoke with him, ... They wanted him to go another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12024]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato  Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,   E muta nome, perche muta lato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the numbers with 20 seniors and many underclassmen that are going to play key roles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28697]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red you tend to follow that tradition. My theory is that has a tendency to follow through with what equipment you run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team goes through a streak like we're on, it's real easy to lose confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me,  I want to be forgotten even by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62360]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a good war or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45915]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could tell it probably wasn't the best news of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/713]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/713</guid></item></channel></rss>