<?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 you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly to greet the empress's friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw him. He got shot in the head. [The bullet] stopped in the middle of his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw him. He got shot in the head. [The bullet] stopped in the middle of his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he was tired. The idea of a pitcher wearing out is ridiculous. He weakens because he's not in condition. I was never taken out of a game because I was weak. I was taken out because I was getting hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they get to high school and they think they know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19310]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness to abide by international human rights standards,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544]]></link><description><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10719]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have resigned from MSG (Madison Square Garden Network) and have been let go from NBC. I fully understand the position in which the networks found themselves due to my very painful situation. In the interest of my family, my friends and my many supporters, I step aside with deep humility and seek to reconstruct my personal and professional life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - De Legibus, 1240.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. -Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome the atrocities of pain and terrorism,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63773]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52788]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17353</guid></item></channel></rss>