<?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[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise the bridge that carried you over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought of his age, we seem to be assuming that the thought of his age was erroneous. When we select for serious consideration those doctrines which "transcend" the thought of his own age and are "for all time", we are assuming that the thought of our age is correct: for of course by thoughts which transcend the great man's age we really mean thoughts that agree with ours. Thus I value Shakespeare's picture of the transformation in old Lear more than I value his views about the divine right of kings, because I agree with Shakespeare that a man can be purified by suffering like Lear, but do not believe that kings (or any other rulers) have divine right in the sense required. When the great man's views do not seem to us erroneous we do not value them the less for having been shared with his contemporaries. Shakespeare's disdain for treachery and Christ's blessing on the poor were not alien to the outlook of their respective periods; but no one wishes to discredit them on that account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45315]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11151]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction alters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55301]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers   Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</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[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. It's absorbing all of our profits, and we can't make a living,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51269]]></link><description><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were a lot of strong riders there in the top six, but the track's a little slippery, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36299]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were a lot of strong riders there in the top six, but the track's a little slippery, a little softer than I thought. So I had a hard time getting up to speed there, misjudged the sprint and, you know, got second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330]]></link><description><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13414]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131</guid></item></channel></rss>