<?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[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/938]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody complained. It was a smooth transition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51561]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</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[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60273]]></link><description><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. It wasn't meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64194</guid></item></channel></rss>