<?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[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know who you are, and I am not impressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55053]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know who you are, and I am not impressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we say is, if you're not the first vehicle there then you're not going to be the first person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37032]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we say is, if you're not the first vehicle there then you're not going to be the first person to report it. It's already reported.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24161]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the air does laugh with our merry wit,   And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns to itch where one can scratch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/572]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns to itch where one can scratch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></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/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11340]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot of challenges, and I look forward to working with the league office to help in any way I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25326]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13359</guid></item></channel></rss>