<?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[There is always safety in valor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always safety in valor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57663]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60527]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[aren't critical to the strategy of the infrastructure we are building throughout North America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37781]]></link><description><![CDATA[aren't critical to the strategy of the infrastructure we are building throughout North America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe depending onhis bringing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19715]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged,   Because a kick in that place more    Hurts honour than deep wounds before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis  E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5736]]></link><description><![CDATA[They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight  (Mysterious veil, of brightness made,)   That's both her lustre and her shade),    And in the lantern of the night,     With shining horns hung out her light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17732]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48135]]></link><description><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43041</guid></item></channel></rss>