<?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[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts,he holds the key to every situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900]]></link><description><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as well now and then not to remember all we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think, I just walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13034]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think, I just walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9300]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been hitting a lot better than last year, but we had four errors (Tuesday) and that is what I can't stand. We'll make great defensive plays, then make a mistake. We just have to be consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</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[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a better state. Prosperity has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and to make him who enjoys affluence and honors forget the hand by which they were bestowed. It is seldom that we are otherwise than by affliction awakened to a sense of our imbecility, or taught to know how little all our acquisitions can conduce to safety or quiet, and how justly we may inscribe to the superintendence of a higher power those blessings which in the wantonness of success we considered as the attainments of our policy and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight coaches for different subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23974]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of all in true love there is no ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14585</guid></item></channel></rss>