<?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[I felt like Jesus being lifted up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62748]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!    Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9405]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3451]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17383]]></link><description><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%, we are not excited about further inversion just yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53140]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5755]]></link><description><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347]]></link><description><![CDATA[to get drunk, meet attractive girls, and get laid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised at the fact that AXA Financial had spent so much time and money trying to build DLJ, especially build its presence in Europe the last couple of years and now it's pulling the ripcord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!   This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there    The columns of the heavenly palaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to stay in touch with the leaders without taking any risks and dropping too much time. It was a good day for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hush! With sudden gush  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush   The Hermit Thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hush! With sudden gush  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush   The Hermit Thrush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item></channel></rss>