<?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[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59624]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24362]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61777]]></link><description><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   But 'tis so in the song.    My wants are many, and, if told,     Would muster many a score;      And were each wish a mint of gold,       I still should long for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song alone,   The deeds of great and noble souls.    [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,     Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;      Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann       Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed with trees   And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,    Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,     He says he does, being then most flattered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38791]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62189]]></link><description><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57412]]></link><description><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is the eldest child of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306]]></link><description><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</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[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are also laws to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The parachute was purchased by Stephen and he was very safety conscious, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The parachute was purchased by Stephen and he was very safety conscious,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept urgency. That was a big factor. We kept playing hard on defense and stuck with the game plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept urgency. That was a big factor. We kept playing hard on defense and stuck with the game plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire   In all things which our needful faith require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14452]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24913</guid></item></channel></rss>