<?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[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright   The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51805]]></link><description><![CDATA[His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52393]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he finally gets around to it, he'll see that the problems we face require real solutions rather than stale political rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic structure. It was bad luck that we couldn't get him for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did receive yesterday a letter from the Competition Bureau of Canada stating that it has begun an investigation into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did receive yesterday a letter from the Competition Bureau of Canada stating that it has begun an investigation into the activities of carriers that are engaged in the provision of international air cargo services to and from Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are blind in their own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,    I have no relish of them, but abound     In the division of each several crime,      Acting in many ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mass enormous! which, in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55792]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[did not have his own sources of funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33141]]></link><description><![CDATA[did not have his own sources of funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8876]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47694</guid></item></channel></rss>