<?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[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46124]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23054]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62334]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether or not you write well, write bravely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether or not you write well, write bravely]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en France; il n'y a qu'un Francais de plus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things rush to the destruction of each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things rush to the destruction of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All movements go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403]]></link><description><![CDATA[All movements go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime requires further crime to conceal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates a man from his fellow men. It may fill him with a self-righteousness which rejoices in its own superiority to those who have had no like experience. It may move a man to a Pharisaic self-isolation. There have in fact been not a few so-called conversions as a result of which a man has left the Church to belong to some smaller and holier body. The plain truth is that such a one should very seriously examine himself, if he finds what he regards as his Christian experience separating him from his fellow-men, or his fellow-Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been pretty fortunate...we do quite a bit of training on driving and how you should be driving and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33776]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been pretty fortunate...we do quite a bit of training on driving and how you should be driving and things like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item></channel></rss>