<?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[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your face system. It's a fun game to watch and a fun game to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks  A various language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are indeed   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age    Are petrified forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  All the rest have thirty-one   Excepting February alone:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  All the rest have thirty-one   Excepting February alone:    Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,     Till lap year gives it twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said: "You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't pay attention for an hour and 15 minutes. It would make my life better if I could go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29047]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't pay attention for an hour and 15 minutes. It would make my life better if I could go back and reference parts of the lecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45706]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress   In metre, as Druids did the savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content;  There are souls like stars that dwell apart,   In a fellowless firmament;    There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths     Where highways never ran,--      But let me live by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, andinfluence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, andinfluence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33252]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get the top-end price for the coal (output), we're going to have to add additional equipment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21536]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did lie; With our poor flesh and our poor blood Was clothed that everlasting good The Lord Christ Jesu, God's son dear, Was a guest and a stranger here; Us for to bring from misery, That we might live eternally. All this did he for us freely, For to declare his great mercy; All Christendom be merry therefore, And give him thanks for evermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item></channel></rss>