<?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[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432]]></link><description><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You definitely have to respect this place, as we learned in the past with my father and my grandfather both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41466]]></link><description><![CDATA[You definitely have to respect this place, as we learned in the past with my father and my grandfather both had a lot of unfortunate luck here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the sound had parted thence,   Still left an echo in the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22970]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52391]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22805]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,   By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,     Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.      Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,       By which those great in war, are great in love.        The spring of all brave acts is seated here,         As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail;  The body should always be little and sweet,   And a sting should be felt in its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude of books is making us ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52838]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues,  Unless to mortal it were given  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues,  Unless to mortal it were given   To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20905]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61461</guid></item></channel></rss>