<?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 amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose toput energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2484</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[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street to bring the Jets back ... It just seems to be more and more serious as time goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28278]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, we have won the war, virtually, and we have to win the peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43155]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a real big thing. He praised the people that are positive about the program, and who want to uphold its achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalists prize independence - not teamwork, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalists prize independence - not teamwork,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17963</guid></item></channel></rss>