<?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['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says:  For all the windows and the walls   Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;    Pillars and doors all were of brass;     Windows of latten were set with glass;      It was so rich in many wise,       That it was like a paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso  Suggon l'istesso umore.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20577]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33517]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34597]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the slides we presented shows the boundaries of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. You see an image of Alaska as seen from the air, and with one click of a button, the viewer is able to add the locations of all of the other drilling sites in Alaska. It really drives home that most of Alaska is already open to oil and gas development and there's this one place that we've managed to protect thus far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A learned man has always wealth in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61439]]></link><description><![CDATA[A learned man has always wealth in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills a chat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills a chat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." [Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,  Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5277]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blind eate many a flie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blind eate many a flie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41154]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277</guid></item></channel></rss>