<?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[What price Glory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What price Glory?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. That's what we'll need this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Ossa upon Pelion. [Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43319]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Ossa upon Pelion. [Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44471]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price.  (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55738]]></link><description><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27327]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of skilled workers that technology employers need for sustained future growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't know whether this would be a five-inning game or not (because of the weather).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12724]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy, to think about love, to talk about love, to wish for love. But it's not always easy, to recognize love. Even when we hold it....in our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just taking it one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. [Fr., Les Anglais, nation trop fiere  S'arrogent l'empire des mers;   Les Francais, nation legere,    S'emparent de celui des airs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, and still feel, that it was the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the highest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the highest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35547]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35547</guid></item></channel></rss>