<?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 national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58268]]></link><description><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and so full of pain!   Forever and forever shalt thou be    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,     To some the landmark of a new domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fighting Cocks and the EagleTwo game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes before destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was beautiful here, and the people were so nice. Even the food was more like home, with the rice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was beautiful here, and the people were so nice. Even the food was more like home, with the rice and the sushi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23520]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51507]]></link><description><![CDATA[For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have your closes,   And all must die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49313]]></link><description><![CDATA[He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29237]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, maybe it will happen. I'm just going to work hard and do the same things that got me here. Hopefully that's enough. I hope they like the way I play and I can get a spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,   The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads    That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;     The green beneath and the blue above,      And dash, and danger, and life and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We that are in the vaward of our youth. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45315]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45315</guid></item></channel></rss>