<?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[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been achieved previously in India.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56464]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields, was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36668]]></link><description><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown  From simple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27560]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown  From simple sources, and great seas have dried   When miracles have by the greatest been denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54880]]></link><description><![CDATA[As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised that second game took as long as it did. We were trying to get everyone in, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised that second game took as long as it did. We were trying to get everyone in, but later we had to make some changes to get the right personnel in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27006]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, that they give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40864]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, that they give you more energy. Frankly, they're nothing much more than caffeine in a can with a lot of sugar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606]]></link><description><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of cabbages--and kings--    And why the sea is boiling hot--     And whether pigs have wings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a little than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy is my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58888</guid></item></channel></rss>