<?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[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25622]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain   Of evening rain    Unravelled from the trembling main     And threading the eye of a yellow star:--      So many time do I love again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38536]]></link><description><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51349]]></link><description><![CDATA[With taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big-time win for College Park. My kids played hard. They played inspired. I'm very proud of them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big-time win for College Park. My kids played hard. They played inspired. I'm very proud of them. They fought until the end and we pulled it off. Monique hit two big free throws in the fourth quarter and Allie iced it with two free throws. Rachel was everywhere defensively. We made more history at College Park. This group is making history every couple of weeks. It's an exciting group of kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and took everything for granted. We didn't want a million dollars, we wanted more gigs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66378]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15040]]></link><description><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of darkness grows?    Who, through what funereal pain,     Souls to love and peace attain?   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute the Moorish flute,   And nodding guards watch wearily,    On, then let me,     From prison free,      March out by moonlight cheerily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Portia has already made history, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Portia has already made history, and looks set to consolidate her place in the history books of the future by becoming Jamaica's first female prime minister. She has proven herself to be a likeable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy of this place in history and will serve as an inspiration for women the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33574</guid></item></channel></rss>