<?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[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here was a rare man, who lived a rare life and showed us the way to live life at its fullest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52759]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52046]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.   Some may perchance, with strange surprise,    Have blundered into Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47489]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55554]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123]]></link><description><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our lamplit race,   And each from each takes heart of grace    And spirit till his turn be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall make, in every Christian clime,   The bell of Atri famous for all time.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves -- was a civilizing triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. People say I must be nuts. Well, maybe I am. ... We all have goals. Why wouldn't they be the highest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great choice. The man is a major American playwright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great choice. The man is a major American playwright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11988]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human activity is prompted by desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't apologize for it not being pretty, and we don't apologize for keeping it close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already vulnerable political situation in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream to be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47295</guid></item></channel></rss>