<?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[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62240]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12815]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of tenyears, plant trees; if in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22738]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of tenyears, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058]]></link><description><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   While Folly glares at length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tone of campaigning in the last week has gone sour. There's been mudslinging and some uncalled for utterances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38343]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. But I give Hillcrest a lot of credit they're a good team and have a lot of good players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally, the appeals process in a case like this takes a couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's black Mantle covers all alike.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that of cashier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30531]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make them, you keep taking them. It boosted our confidence for the second half of the game. When it feels good, I keep shooting if I am open. If I am not open, I look for my teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55415]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a gentleman farmer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50432</guid></item></channel></rss>