<?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[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And calm, and self-possessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59216]]></link><description><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46254]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray   Of duty that the brave endure    Must have made foes. If he has none     Small is the work that he has done.      He has hit no traitor on the hip;       Has cast no cup from perjured lip;        Has never turned the wrong to right;         Has been a coward in the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30896]]></link><description><![CDATA[She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17952]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon Zoo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in basketball, too. We ran a tight ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26007]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the flitting guest   Need never hunger more.    But while the loitering idler waits     Good luck beside his fire,      The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,       And conquers its desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive results, to a realistic, pragmatic approach with interesting results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, wear tropical shirts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627]]></link><description><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better day, the worse deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better day, the worse deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31158]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933</guid></item></channel></rss>