<?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[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are good that are away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/179]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are good that are away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857]]></link><description><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is given to you to drink medicine for your soul from the cup of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45517]]></link><description><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera: the graveyard of melody]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want to move on. As of today, we will follow whatever the state guidelines are for off-season practice. As of today, you won't see us anywhere near a football until May 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The far-off interest of tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The far-off interest of tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6994]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,   Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,    As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,     Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27123]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple questions they often ask a policeman is how to get somewhere, directional things. That is what the bulk of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple questions they often ask a policeman is how to get somewhere, directional things. That is what the bulk of policemen on the beat get asked. There is a mapping system in there. Basic information in terms of support that the policemen give in terms of victim support or any common areas that they might want to go into a police station for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35814</guid></item></channel></rss>