<?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[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stronger data virtually assure significant changes in the Fed's directive this week. The new directive will probably include a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stronger data virtually assure significant changes in the Fed's directive this week. The new directive will probably include a grudging acknowledgement of the stronger labor market and inflation statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power  T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps   Out of my weakness and my melancholy,    As he is very potent with such spirits,     Abuses me to damn me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Morning breaks upon the tomb, Jesus scatters all its gloom. Day of triumph through the skies-- See the glorious Saviour rise. Christians! Dry your flowing tears, Chase those unbelieving fears; Look on his deserted grave, Doubt no more his power to save. Ye who are of death afraid, Triumph in the scattered shade: Drive your anxious cares away, See the place where Jesus lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/293]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's meant to be will always find a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66176]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's meant to be will always find a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34446]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just normal everyday kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40561]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just normal everyday kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,  In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves   His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man    His annual visit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To win without risk is to triumph without glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66837]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25680]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item></channel></rss>