<?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[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-eight-three in the summer, meaning in non-ideal conditions? Formidable, ... Valentino makes me dream and I say he has nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-eight-three in the summer, meaning in non-ideal conditions? Formidable, ... Valentino makes me dream and I say he has nothing to lose. Go ahead and try it. Everyone likes him, from the Italians to the Japanese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26118]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29290]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love builds bridges where there are none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50804]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56161]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;   She guards them from the steep.    She feeds them on the fragrant height,     And folds them in for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about poverty, it's not about a woman struggling to become a writer in a world dominated by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15442]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really was a matter of who they were going to believe. We're they going to believe Cannon or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really was a matter of who they were going to believe. We're they going to believe Cannon or the four police officers who were there that day to arrest him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66405]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30683]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is a dry month anyway. It's typically the driest month. And this February was drier than most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item></channel></rss>