<?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[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475]]></link><description><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to have dodged a big one and come through pretty unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that he is indeed our Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to be critical that to be correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to be critical that to be correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35950]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the issue over Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9665]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone.   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied mob in front of a roulette wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65757</guid></item></channel></rss>