<?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[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth issue has got to be probably our biggest concern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth issue has got to be probably our biggest concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55877]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's plague   To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy    Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet     From one that so imperfectly conjects      Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble       Out of his scattering and unsure observance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I'm doing this is to bring awareness, so people can do something. When I came to this country, people did not know about Sudan, but we went to the White House, and now there is no more fighting in the southern part of Sudan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55875]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on,  Who never said a foolish thing,   And never did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59304]]></link><description><![CDATA[(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46005]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58187]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27038]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/994]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disarmed peace is weake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God of earth and altar,  Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter,  Our people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7854]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God of earth and altar,  Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter,  Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us,  The swords of scorn divide; Take not Thy thunder from us,  But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches,  From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches  That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation  Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation,  Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether  The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together,  Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation  Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation,  A single sword to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item></channel></rss>