<?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 is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59179]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300]]></link><description><![CDATA[But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard,  In your rambles in valleys and forests,   Repeating your ultimate word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. It's clear that there isn't a silver bullet to deal with some these issues, but there's potential for looking further into the viability of some of the ideas presented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132]]></link><description><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are just indicating that in case they come under any military pressure or any threat then they can properly defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;   Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52018]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721]]></link><description><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;  Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this and I knew somehow I would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the highest award you can receive in the council. Basically Dave is very deserving of the award for his dedication to the program, and he really enjoys working with the boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35544]]></link><description><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896]]></link><description><![CDATA[People asked me that when I did 'Hostage,' but I don't know. It's going to pay the bills, and while it's happening, I'll appreciate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42618]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one country implicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42618</guid></item></channel></rss>