<?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[When we blame, we give away our power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44277]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we blame, we give away our power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houghton was the last 'independent' educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the tawny bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae;  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,   The milkwhite is the slae.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fantastic piece. The bidding was at $20,000 when we withdrew it, and I'm sure it would've gotten crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fantastic piece. The bidding was at $20,000 when we withdrew it, and I'm sure it would've gotten crazy tonight but we wouldn't let it get to that point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also serve who only stand and wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696]]></link><description><![CDATA[All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item></channel></rss>