<?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[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He was a very wag, who to you said,   "Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are willing to cooperate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are willing to cooperate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of Shelly for playing four years of softball. I'm going to nominate her for the North-South all-stars, because of her attitude and her intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied mob in front of a roulette wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4308]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter holding both his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter holding both his sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way,  Homeward she drives before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56184]]></link><description><![CDATA[She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way,  Homeward she drives before the favouring gales;   Now flirting at their length the streamers play,    And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said: 'Judge me as an accused person. What crimes did I commit?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29821]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said: 'Judge me as an accused person. What crimes did I commit?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any wish thou darest not pray,   Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37778]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63225]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talked to [manager Frank Robinson] and the GM [Jim Bowden] and told them I am going to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are dinosaurs. They live on the back of the IRA, but the IRA are finished, and they cannot grasp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37874]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are dinosaurs. They live on the back of the IRA, but the IRA are finished, and they cannot grasp it. They won't move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item></channel></rss>