<?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[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[HOLLYWOOD, California (Variety) -- Nicolas Cage, who played twins in] Adaptation ... It's time for me to discover and enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29605]]></link><description><![CDATA[[HOLLYWOOD, California (Variety) -- Nicolas Cage, who played twins in] Adaptation ... It's time for me to discover and enjoy my own company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Songs consecrate to truth and liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to take charge and get the job done, we had our opportunities and that's the name of the game. You have to lay it on the line and get it done and those who make the plays win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727]]></link><description><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, and live laborious days;   But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,    And think to burst out into sudden blaze,     Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,      And slits the thin-spun life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings,   When, from the orchard-row, he pours    Its fragrance through our open doors;     A world of blossoms for the bee,      Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,       For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,        We plant with the apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was 10 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,   Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34162]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25203</guid></item></channel></rss>