<?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[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56600]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through the rye    . . . .     Gin a body meet a body      Comin' through the rye,       Gin a body kiss a body        Need a body cry?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14172]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,    And, in this upshot, purposes mistook     Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God said: Let there be light: and there was light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25043]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47199]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the contrary it is the very means of preventing revolution and civil wars. It provides a method for the peaceful adjustment of government to the will of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55875]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44874]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll meet a lot of folks that week. People will get to see the smile, the personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50266]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14740]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to travel, But hate to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48840]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32544]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we just haven't been able to get over the hump the last few years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over toJenin and its Refugee CampAs battlefields in a minuteClouds of black smokes belchedFrom the nozzle of the missilesTurned the dwellings into debrisAnd lives breathe under rubbleStill desires of livingThat will never be fulfilledSighing are heard in the airUnseen ghosts are roaming freelySearching their brotherhoodsLiving or deadSouls are still weeping bitterlyWith sorrows that never endIn the war turned atmosphereFlying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smellOdors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyardsTo wipe the terrors and even its ghostsOut of the worldly atmosphereReassuring pure peaceIn every people’s mindIs’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ?© Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough. It's very tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough. It's very tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64827</guid></item></channel></rss>