<?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[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938]]></link><description><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1916]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency and better performances on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love or whatever you name it; it just makes losing our freedom! welcome to the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love or whatever you name it; it just makes losing our freedom! welcome to the club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty and folly are old companions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty and folly are old companions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize therewards of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize therewards of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30036]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, ... He said that six months before anybody else in the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those that nought expect, For they shall not be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38845]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46200</guid></item></channel></rss>