<?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[Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O these degenerate days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860]]></link><description><![CDATA[O these degenerate days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay with those who make you feel good by thinking about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in their best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61202]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8411]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item></channel></rss>