<?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[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a Spanish radio station company that goes after Hispanics that are bilingual. They really live in two cultures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a Spanish radio station company that goes after Hispanics that are bilingual. They really live in two cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked on whatever I have to on whatever team in practice. I work hard in everything as hard as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked on whatever I have to on whatever team in practice. I work hard in everything as hard as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below,  Over the housetops, over the street,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below,  Over the housetops, over the street,   Over the heads of the people you meet.    Dancing,     Flirting,      Skimming along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot or draw a foul, and she did terrific at the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled thislight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the two princes probably are quite different in temperament. But they're close to each other. They're very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the two princes probably are quite different in temperament. But they're close to each other. They're very close to their father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a different format. Classes are open and inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a different format. Classes are open and inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32307</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[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/875]]></link><description><![CDATA[There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful honor to be captain in an event that has given me some of the most incredible memories that I've experienced in golf,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34511]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item></channel></rss>