<?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[No lock will hold against the power of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No lock will hold against the power of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  People naturally do not shout it out, least of all into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  People naturally do not shout it out, least of all into the ears of us ministers; but let us not be deceived by their silence. Blood and tears, deepest despair and highest hope, a passionate longing to lay hold of ... Him who overcomes the world because He is its Creator and Redeemer, its beginning and ending and lord -- a passionate longing to have the word spoken, the word which promises grace in judgment, life in death, and the beyond in the here and now, God's word -- this it is that animates our church-goers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the current flies   Each bound it chafes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause,  True to the death, but not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause,  True to the death, but not to be his slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready as of tomorrow to receive the unions ... There won't be any limits to the talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles  Fly swiftly there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3906]]></link><description><![CDATA["O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles  Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41194</guid></item></channel></rss>