<?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[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember getting busted in the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38082]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their resume is a win over Navy. That's a huge void they would like to fill in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of confidence. I have a lot of faith in the fact that Tommy and I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of confidence. I have a lot of faith in the fact that Tommy and I will be found not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my sister was my bitch. We had to walk down Sunset Boulevard because we couldn't get a ride to the party, and everyone was sticking their heads out of their cars and yelling at us. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the way you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so can good men be known by their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so can good men be known by their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62825</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[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket to win the game, so I had to put the ball in the basket. And backboard? No! I was trying to find the quickest way to put the ball in the basket, period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35986]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to receive approval of the transaction in Idaho and appreciate the efforts of the commission and all parties to the proceeding working together to reach an agreement that is fair and equitable to all stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,   And they in France of the best rank and station    Are of a most select and generous chief in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750]]></link><description><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision introduced into the Chinese Constitution in March 2004.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item></channel></rss>