<?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[If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57120]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,   To-morrow may be dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29838]]></link><description><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides when he drained the southern marshes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a show that's designed just for children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a show that's designed just for children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142]]></link><description><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are the shorthand of behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, or be damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, or be damned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17842]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he believed that she, quote, 'Fought like hell. He also believes that the killer or killers cleaned up the crime scene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;   The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown:    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,     Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917]]></link><description><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we find   The sharded beetle in a safer hold    Than is the full-winged eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258</guid></item></channel></rss>