<?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[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38935]]></link><description><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was hard to come by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1805</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[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24048]]></link><description><![CDATA[All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live by reposing trust in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by reposing trust in each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's premature at this point in time to call it a prank or a hoax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14212]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51269]]></link><description><![CDATA[That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40015]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</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[Music helps not the toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music helps not the toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item></channel></rss>