<?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[All war represents a failure of diplomacy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12310]]></link><description><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who survives will see the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who survives will see the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, no-brainers. While the families of people with mental illnesses are voters, many people with mental illnesses are not. That's not the same for people with cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the Florida catastrophe fund. Commissioners are calling for special sessions in legislature and are hoping that the process will be more seamless than it was in Florida.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24364]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16960]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget too much That every creature, female as the male,  Stands single in responsible act and thought   As also in birth and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has no borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has no borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be able to find an agreement without too much difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man goes before his time / unless the boss leaves early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26286]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying lemons for Iraqi allies who have bull's-eyes on their backs. That's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi parliament to complete the draft constitution in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with law is lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with law is lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge- they were all messages of love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103</guid></item></channel></rss>