<?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[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He can run. He has everything. All he needs in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been almost three years since the attack on the USS Cole, but we have not forgotten this nation's commitment to bring justice to all those who plot murder and orchestrate terror, no matter how long they run or how far they flee,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62945]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been practicing hard, too. I really don't want to mention it, but wouldn't it be nice if ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been practicing hard, too. I really don't want to mention it, but wouldn't it be nice if ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gap may run into more competition than they think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the light and comfort of the outward world keeps even the worst men from any constant strong sensibility of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the light and comfort of the outward world keeps even the worst men from any constant strong sensibility of that wrathful, fiery, dark and self-tormenting nature that is the very essence of every fallen unregenerate soul, yet every man in the world has more or less frequent and strong intimations given him that so it is with him in the inmost ground of his soul. How many inventions are some people forced to have recourse to in order to keep off a certain inward uneasiness, which they are afraid of and know not whence it comes? Alas, it is because there is a fallen spirit, a dark, aching fire, within them, which has never had its proper relief and is trying to discover itself and calling out for help at every cessation of worldly joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180]]></link><description><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059</guid></item></channel></rss>