<?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[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28666]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States has not shown a preference strong enough to affect buying decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21813]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½ pulled up about half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30713]]></link><description><![CDATA[[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancÃƒÂ…Ã‚Â½ pulled up about half way in the driveway and shouted 'Quick! Get a camera.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan,  Even before he gets so far   As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,    At the last of the thirty palace-gates     The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,      Orders a feast in his favorite room--       Glittering square of colored ice,        Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,         Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,          Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,           Limes and citrons and apricots,            And wines that are known to Eastern princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16436]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nothing but pure fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nothing but pure fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deputy auditor has done a great job, but it's difficult to get things done without him around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deputy auditor has done a great job, but it's difficult to get things done without him around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  Ideological notions are strongest amongst people who have lost their traditional religious faith, and they provide a kind of pseudo-religion to take its place. Ideology may well be defined as religion-substitute. The fact that religious faith expresses itself in the particular ideological forms current in any given period is no reason why we should confuse religion with ideology; and, even though it requires a penetrating and candid investigation to distinguish between the genuinely religious and the merely ideological elements in the outlook of a particular period or individual, this does not mean that religion itself is an aspect of ideology. The core of religious belief is not ideological, whatever may be said of the soft pulp in which it is wrapped up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34611]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?   Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To keep one from going nude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item></channel></rss>