<?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[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17207]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42361]]></link><description><![CDATA[ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look before you ere you leap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look before you ere you leap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a senior and a leader doing what he is supposed to do. The last couple of games he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38715]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a senior and a leader doing what he is supposed to do. The last couple of games he's really stepped up and has been filling in nicely for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should blush   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,    To show myself a glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61224]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed. [Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da wird er reussieren.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44902]]></link><description><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can die   In all this northern gleam?    At every turn the maples burn,     The quail is whistling free,      The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs       Are dropping for you and me.        Ho! hillyho! heigh O!         Hillyho!          In the clear October morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/994]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greater liar than the Parthians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I had not so much of man in me,   And all my mother came into mine eyes    And gave me up to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item></channel></rss>