<?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[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592]]></link><description><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall. [It., Quell' onda, che ruina  Dalla pendice alpina,   Balza, si frange, e mormora    Ma limpida si fa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37216]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight months out of the year you can play tournaments in Montana. There are tournaments everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eight months out of the year you can play tournaments in Montana. There are tournaments everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest  Save he who courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16164]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest  Save he who courts the flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life you need either inspiration or desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11994]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life you need either inspiration or desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual shelters are being run very well, with thousands of very big-hearted, generous volunteers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual shelters are being run very well, with thousands of very big-hearted, generous volunteers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46465]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24496]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4899]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features   Are brought up, others by a warlike leader;    Some by a place--as tend their years or natures;     The most by ready cash--but all have prices,      From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35110</guid></item></channel></rss>