<?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[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly with its berries red,   And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10349]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume that, because we are Christians, in the full biblical sense, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, automatically we shall be free from the influence of what surrounds us. The Holy Spirit can do what He will, but the Bible does not separate His work from knowledge; nor does the work of the Holy Spirit remove our responsibility as parents, pastors, evangelists, missionaries, or teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have impeached myself by resigning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have impeached myself by resigning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735]]></link><description><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57885]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in moderation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1933]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly   That feeds on dung is colored thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's my wee-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36884]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's my wee-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28270]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item></channel></rss>