<?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[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62313]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air,   Sole, or responsive each to other's note,    Singing their great Creator?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33295]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11865]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   The world has nothing to bestow,    From our own selves our bliss must flow,     And that dear hut,--our home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions totheir needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. Hedemonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved,the crisis overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35666]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... I was proud of him. He was doing a great job and I wasn't. I got tired of hearing it, but I was proud of him at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53092]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, with its separate frames and short vignettes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sitting on the next wave of technological innovation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31560]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sitting on the next wave of technological innovation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64751]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14179]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not in the warres is not out of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49367]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243</guid></item></channel></rss>