<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a great thing to pursue,   Dies ere he knows it.    That low man goes on adding one to one,     His hundreds soon hit:      His high man, aiming at a million,       Misses an unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book... No, here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book... No, here was a sequence of great character and emancipated spirit, all attached to and explained by such a personality as the world never saw; and the central doctrine of the risen Christ squared with the rationality and the goodness of God... The wise said that God and the godlike could have no contact with suffering, but Jesus was no phantom feigning to be crucified; he truly suffered on the cross, he truly rose. Suffering is a language all can understand, and none can quite exhaust; and the suffering Christ, victorious over pain and death, meant for all who grasped his significance a new faith in God, a new freedom of mind in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" and no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46237]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hic murus aeneus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hic murus aeneus esto,  Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63800]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea what level of concern this industry has for pedestrians. The best way to avoid tragedies like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38201]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea what level of concern this industry has for pedestrians. The best way to avoid tragedies like these is not be near the train tracks at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come out to enjoy the food, enjoy the music. It's a chance to get together and visit with friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come out to enjoy the food, enjoy the music. It's a chance to get together and visit with friends and neighbors. It's a fun family event, and the park is absolutely perfect for this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;  And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless   My senses with the sight of her I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59133]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name! The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273</guid></item></channel></rss>