<?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[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50973]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23457]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55815]]></link><description><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,— This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow;  But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,   Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bottom line starts with your front line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always thought it could be a dangerous hurricane, ... is the typical track for October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always thought it could be a dangerous hurricane, ... is the typical track for October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide witheither of her desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide witheither of her desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,  That mark our place, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,  That mark our place, and in the sky,   The larks, still bravely singing, fly    Scarce heard among the guns below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780]]></link><description><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item></channel></rss>