<?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 family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44563]]></link><description><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32755]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.   - John Keble,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,   An alligator stuffed, and other skins    Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves     A beggarly account of boxes,      Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,       Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses        Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an evolving IP world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42325]]></link><description><![CDATA[IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being fed up with his hometown and his local 7-11.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item></channel></rss>