<?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[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22305]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45706]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have Patience, can have what he will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126]]></link><description><![CDATA[To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Devotional poetry... has to do with devotedness, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Devotional poetry... has to do with devotedness, with trust merged into faith, with love's steadfastness. It finds men's worthwhileness deep laid in relationship to God's worthwhileness, and this devotion is expressed in communication. It finds this world precious insofar as it... symbolizes God's love and therefore it runs counter to our national sin of distrust in God. (And yet, how can we trust Him without knowing and living unto Him and loving Him?).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, To us a Son is given;   Bless, bless the blessed morn! O happy, lowly lofty birth, Now God, our God, has come to earth! Rejoice, our God has come!   In love and lowliness; The Son of God has come   The sons of men to bless. God with us now descend to dwell, God in our flesh, Immanuel. Praise ye the word made flesh!   True God, true man is He. Praise ye the Christ of God!   To Him all glory be. Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain, Praise ye the king that comes to reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder I work, the luckier I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder I work, the luckier I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819]]></link><description><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was not his usual, energetic self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gov. Romney's education reform plan addresses the single biggest challenge for our state's economy, which is supplying the pipeline of skilled workers that technology employers need for sustained future growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor has put her finger directly on the most critical needs in Puget Sound with this initiative. The additional funds she is proposing will accelerate some of the highest priority actions on the ground, while the new public-private partnership will build the broader coalition needed to safeguard the future of this great natural area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of Interior will adopt the states' position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations than any other economist in the country. He's a wonderful politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61238]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,  Let us chime in a peal, one and all,   For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3018</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[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would like to extend his bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item></channel></rss>