<?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["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759]]></link><description><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Vin Diesel] is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29694]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Vin Diesel] is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11560]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty and War have no excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty and War have no excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world itself is too small for the covetous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - The Wisdom of the Heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31897]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to the proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Thing that I was born to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588]]></link><description><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,   In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19124]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item></channel></rss>