<?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[Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Lastweek I put a mirror ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Lastweek I put a mirror over my dining room table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59458]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9347]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47646]]></link><description><![CDATA[...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12024]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is the enemy of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is the enemy of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming into the game, we had everything laid out on offense. If they played zone, we had to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming into the game, we had everything laid out on offense. If they played zone, we had to get a lot of movement and screening to get our shots. We did a good job of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep reading between the lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other. [Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,  Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:   Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45337]]></link><description><![CDATA[St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48975]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item></channel></rss>