<?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[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is fate. (Destiny)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiatesuccess before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from anattitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel respects Rev. Robertson and accepts his apology, which reflects his true friendship and support for the state of Israel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel respects Rev. Robertson and accepts his apology, which reflects his true friendship and support for the state of Israel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901]]></link><description><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44395]]></link><description><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress  Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,   And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,    That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he can only become better. He's only going to get better, and this will be a very big experience for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17134]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can provide any number of medical [or] social work interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can provide any number of medical [or] social work interventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item></channel></rss>