<?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[We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and women who are out there protecting our big, fat, bloated lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29139]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive and always positive, so that's always a good thing. When she is up, the team is also up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,   A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove  With flaunting honeysuckle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could be on scene and see someone mistreat an animal and we couldn't arrest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13545]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1801]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude wind   Blows in your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't dog it in the weight room. He pushed out extra sets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't dog it in the weight room. He pushed out extra sets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam,  Are little events that have come to pass   Since the days of the old regime.    And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,     I'd give--though it might seem bold--      A hundred years of the Golden Age       For a year of the Age of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39003]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack   Of somebody to hew and hack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54182</guid></item></channel></rss>