<?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[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1265]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has returned to normal. We expect everything to be fine and for him to be available [on Friday] unless there is some setback.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58417]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo,  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15288]]></link><description><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and pacing through the forest,   Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,    Lo, what befell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were very nervous to start the game. I think (it helped) having a pitcher like Pat just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were very nervous to start the game. I think (it helped) having a pitcher like Pat just taking control from the start, and then we started getting comfortable and playing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only think when we are confronted with a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60652]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387]]></link><description><![CDATA[What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973</guid></item></channel></rss>