<?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[Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all comment is superfluous -- or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965]]></link><description><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38432]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it\'s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in Iowa makes more difference than it ever has before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636]]></link><description><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19059]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued to do fine productions, and I've found it even more challenging because we have to adapt productions to the recital stage, and yet we're doing full productions with sets, lights and everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55889]]></link><description><![CDATA[All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as celebrity worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26458]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508]]></link><description><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46260]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets that don't work we're going to step away from,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item></channel></rss>