<?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[I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And feet like sunny gems on an English green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15569]]></link><description><![CDATA[And feet like sunny gems on an English green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55620]]></link><description><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18762]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/301]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 Christ, beneath Thy cross,  To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,  And yet not weep? Not so those women loved  Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;  Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;  Not so the thief was moved; Not so the Sun and Moon  Which hid their faces in a starless sky:  A horror of great darkness at broad noon I only I. Yet give not o'er  But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;  Greater than Moses, turn and look once more  And smite a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31412]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it looked like I was going to be the first one gone and never coming back, ... But they saw something they liked and they stuck with me and gave me a bunch of opportunities to prove myself. And finally it's coming to pass that what they thought about me was right and that I can play in this league and be a player on this team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end and aim of all education is the development of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end and aim of all education is the development of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model of all Muslims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model of all Muslims, and he was defamed and attacked in an unfair, inaccurate way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in theiruniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.*(the same thing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54755]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Vietnam the CIA dressed as Viet Cong and in theiruniform performed atrocities on Catholics and Buddhists.*(the same thing is being done to the Shiites and Sunnisby mosque bombers.. with the US military or Sharonoperatives tagged as Sunnis for Shiites and Shiites forSunnis).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551</guid></item></channel></rss>