<?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[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had another paper that ran the whole thing almost (verbatim) ... and we finally got that paper to retract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had another paper that ran the whole thing almost (verbatim) ... and we finally got that paper to retract it. We've contacted this reporter and asked them to correct the mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't permitted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42604]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between chambers of commerce in both regions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65270]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be.  The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;   And Shakespeare weeps with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32795]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a snake in thy smile, my dear, And bitter poison within thy tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a snake in thy smile, my dear, And bitter poison within thy tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7948]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose andthen where are you?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25412]]></link><description><![CDATA[But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us  At the park gate; and therefore haste away,   For we must measure twenty miles to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome the fact that it was made, we think that it's a positive step, but there's also an agreement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome the fact that it was made, we think that it's a positive step, but there's also an agreement that it's an insufficient step,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975</guid></item></channel></rss>