<?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[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47315]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face shines upon you and be gracious to you; the lord turns His face toward you and gives you peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   The wren with little quill--    . . . .     The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,      The plain-song cuckoo grey,       Whose note full many a man doth mark,        And dares not answer nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11515]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;  To-day is sad. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59444]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;  To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,   Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I care not twopence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I care not twopence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger;  Stronger than the dark, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger;  Stronger than the dark, the light;   Stronger than the wrong, the right;    Faith and Hope triumphant say     Christ will rise on Easter Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws   And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31478]]></link><description><![CDATA[In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35037]]></link><description><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19891]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44368</guid></item></channel></rss>