<?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[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54506]]></link><description><![CDATA[And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25522]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up front, the quarter was fantastic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that a 28-year-old New Zealand man was today charged by Norfolk Island police with murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that a 28-year-old New Zealand man was today charged by Norfolk Island police with murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. No doubt the industry is much more stable business-wise because pay service has returned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1693]]></link><description><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above the smiles and frowns of fate   Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth    That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate the sense of continuity, of steadiness that the queen gives by having been in that role for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll print it, And shame the fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll print it, And shame the fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14483</guid></item></channel></rss>