<?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[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15632]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Reallife. But there was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21120]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Reallife. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotthrough first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debtto be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that theseobstacles were my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."    "And Pluto?"     "A fable; we perish utterly."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -Leo Buscaglia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895]]></link><description><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22764]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is educated insolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</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[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals, and if not this case, then what case would it ever be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking silly doing the same things over and over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the bestof us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the public now is beginning to appreciate this man's talent. As the most talented fighter in the world, he will be in a position to be the biggest attraction and make the most money. I think one thing will naturally follow the other, as long as -- as he said -- is cooperative with the media and knows and understands promotion. The sky's the limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30305</guid></item></channel></rss>