<?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[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15502]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,   As I do thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21515]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all priced in; we hope that the trade data may take the real and the bourse higher this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35000]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all priced in; we hope that the trade data may take the real and the bourse higher this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50734]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved;  You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved;  You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes   And I must have things daintily served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730</guid></item></channel></rss>