<?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[Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as well, into something hip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is a very strong option for expansion of business, attracting investment and promoting the transfer of technologies. And I made this very clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No seat is more than eight seats from the stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35641]]></link><description><![CDATA[No seat is more than eight seats from the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress made it one upon my cheek:   She is so hot because the meat is cold;    The meat is cold because you come not home;     You come not home because you have no stomach;      You have no stomach, having broke your fast;       But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,        Are penitent for your default to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10142</guid></item></channel></rss>