<?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[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56600]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2502]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty lonely onstage, I have to admit, ... But I felt I needed to do more than just entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44008]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more choices start showing up? But, if you leave that first love, then, they all start drifting away? Is that love's way of testing your true feelings or to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61141]]></link><description><![CDATA[When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold him in conceited circles sail, Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,  In all his pomp of pageantry, as if   He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34083]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to take a lot of pushing and shoving in the U.S. and Europe to get the concessions from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38833]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to take a lot of pushing and shoving in the U.S. and Europe to get the concessions from rich countries that will keep poor countries involved in the negotiations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bible:   God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road  That leads me to the Lamb Return, O holy Dove, return,  Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made Thee mourn  And drove Thee from my breast The dearest idol I have known,  Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne,  And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God,  Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road  That leads me to the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48787]]></link><description><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing gratuitous about my films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing gratuitous about my films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had plenty of opportunities in the doubles, but we just didn't convert. But what I said to the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had plenty of opportunities in the doubles, but we just didn't convert. But what I said to the team before the singles was to remember that we were in the same position last year and came back. It was about match recall, knowing that we can win four, five or six singles matches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye;  Each little speck and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23532]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye;  Each little speck and blemish find,   To our own stronger errors blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we read history we make history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19427]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we read history we make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19427</guid></item></channel></rss>