<?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[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in the driver's seat anymore. But we can go out there and perform our best next weekend. It feels terrible, and I hope we don't feel like this again for the rest of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have tangible wealth untold,Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you could never be;I know someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22438]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have tangible wealth untold,Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you could never be;I know someone who told stories to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That thou are crowned, not that I am dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aggravate your choler. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;  Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung   By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light;    And if in recollection lives regret     For wasted days and dreams that were not true,      I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet"       Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew        Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,         And for the pansies send me back a thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I really like about Danny is he's very versatile. He can handle it and shoot it. He's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I really like about Danny is he's very versatile. He can handle it and shoot it. He's not one-dimensional. A lot of guards can do one or the other. He's able to do both. That's what makes him a scholarship player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like my big brother, ... He really took care of me -- made sure I met everybody, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30253]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like my big brother, ... He really took care of me -- made sure I met everybody, and played practice rounds with great players. He did a lot for me when I came out, things I'll never forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The troops have not been protected. We need to bring them home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26178]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I pulled up, I saw a construction crew on the guardrail pointing to a truck just beyond the King ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I pulled up, I saw a construction crew on the guardrail pointing to a truck just beyond the King Street overpass,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger doesn't win games]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50711]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65693]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62379]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</guid></item></channel></rss>