<?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[Blood alone moves the wheels of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood alone moves the wheels of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45418]]></link><description><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you find it,   Less than truth my soul abhors."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15567]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's providence is on the side of clear heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51938]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's providence is on the side of clear heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49965]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16995]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods on shore dim,   We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,     The rapids are near and the daylight's past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42814]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46343]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045]]></link><description><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She said I bet you don’t remember meAnd I said only every other memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26907]]></link><description><![CDATA[She said I bet you don’t remember meAnd I said only every other memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor cows frozeneglected in a blizzardThey dug them upand ate their gizzards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor cows frozeneglected in a blizzardThey dug them upand ate their gizzards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ocular proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!  Be every bar, and every star,   Displayed in full and glorious manner!    Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!     Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179]]></link><description><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   Et le buste    Survit la cite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; and therefore, says David, The Lord reigneth, let the Islands rejoice -- the Islands who by reason of their situation, provision, and trading have most means of conveying Christ Jesus over the world. He hath carried us up to heaven & set us at the right hand of God, & shall not we endeavour to carry him to those nations, who have not yet heard of his name? Shall we still brag that we have brought our clothes, and our hatchets, and our knives, and bread to this and this value and estimation amongst those poor ignorant Souls, and shall we never glory that we have brought the name, and Religion of Christ Jesus in estimation amongst them? Shall we stay till other nations have planted a false Christ among them? And then either continue in our sloth, or take more pains in rooting out a false Christ than would have planted the true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item></channel></rss>