<?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 more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautifuljewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family organization. They protect each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impressive seeing how this NGO operated, ... It really operates like an excellent family organization. They protect each other, and they also have a role in protecting others. They're cheerful, earnest, competent and poor, and they also know how to blend pleasure and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they believe in. Just because the board is not voting 5-0 doesn't mean it's dysfunctional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a new Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And night by night the monitory blast   Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd    O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes,     Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt      Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods       Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44954]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come like Water, and like Wind I go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come like Water, and like Wind I go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market got off to a spirited start, but it soon drew to a halt because nobody wants to take any risk. There is caution, indeed, because of the elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was interrupted only by my schooling]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42880]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24565]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346</guid></item></channel></rss>