<?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[Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where liberty dwells, there is my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even in Christ was exception made of the death of the body; and although He was the Lord of nature, He refused not the law of the flesh which He had taken upon Him. It is necessary for me to die; for Him it was not necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a strike next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards that these do not survive of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44812]]></link><description><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</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[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason we're out on the street today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29618]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason we're out on the street today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hug the shore; let others try the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</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[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I told the British newspaper is that during a questioning session, Tariq Aziz was asked about who in Iraq took sovereign decisions like declaring war, suppressing a revolt or a civil mutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item></channel></rss>