<?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[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a dream, which was not all a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a dream, which was not all a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57712]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:   Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9691]]></link><description><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,   Is studded with its trembling water-drops,    That glimmer with an amethystine light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one location,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion and the mould of form,   Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw a tremendous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but we also know that con artists will take every opportunity to exploit and profit from those who have experienced great loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He says anything that first comes into his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He says anything that first comes into his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15539]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For A Super Mind. It Is The Greatest Source Of Knowledge To Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32367]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy from Russia andmillions of anonymous women and men live nonviolencehttp://PostPoems.com/members/ar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50674</guid></item></channel></rss>