<?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[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18514]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43974]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57271]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5579</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[They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39705]]></link><description><![CDATA[They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29838]]></link><description><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides when he drained the southern marshes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to make excuses. I screwed up, and probably cost the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business model that was proven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60026]]></link><description><![CDATA[An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music tells no truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music tells no truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life;  And he that forged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life;  And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,   Had each a brother's interest in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54747</guid></item></channel></rss>