<?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[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons,  The length of breeches and the gathers   Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did a really good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did a really good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who governs himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things:  It was the eager wish to soar   That gave the gods their wings.    . . . .     There throbs through all the worlds that are      This heart-beat not and strong,       And shaken systems, star by star,        Awake and glow in song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as he sends you to the inferno in Iraq and exposes you to death in your land because of his crusader war against Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone will do),   That I may call my own;    And close at hand is such a one     In yonder street that fronts the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, And morning mercies from above Gently distill like early dew. Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, Great guardian of my sleeping hours; Thy sov'reign word restores the light, And quickens all my drowsy powers. I yield my powers to Thy command, To Thee I consecrate my days; Perpetual blessings from Thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen   Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam    To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;     But never till to-night, never till now,      Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right now, so we've got a chance to be pretty good this year, but I think next year might really be our year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46911]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great hate follows great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37094]]></link><description><![CDATA[An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;  Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,   Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651]]></link><description><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62364]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;  Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33531]]></link><description><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60734</guid></item></channel></rss>