<?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 scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;   Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is ready to provide any guarantees that our nuclear activities are not geared toward nuclear weapon production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is ready to provide any guarantees that our nuclear activities are not geared toward nuclear weapon production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini   In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter  Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau   All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,   Wise, foolish,--so am I;    Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,     Or hurl the cynic's ban?      Let me live in my house by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards. The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape. Look before you leap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting to see them get to the semifinals and step it up. We really represented. The whole town of Greeley just did awesome. There were a lot of tough teams here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.  But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,   And horrow heavy sat on every mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men become old, but they never become good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men become old, but they never become good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21595]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on EleanorRoosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085]]></link><description><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absurd to warme one in his armour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58699</guid></item></channel></rss>