<?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[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,   Time conquers all, and we must time obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is wasted on the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24419]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.  [Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno   Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum    Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38434]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing, isn't that right Mr Geary?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get out of that rhythm and you're trying to get back into that rhythm sometimes you try to do too much. You want to stay on the field, so you try to make plays happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5704]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34180]]></link><description><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robin population is variable from one winter to the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38325]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38325</guid></item></channel></rss>