<?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[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!    Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47841]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40019]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32632]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing endures but personal qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This past weekend I really felt comfortable. I hit a couple of shots early and that gave me confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42158]]></link><description><![CDATA[This past weekend I really felt comfortable. I hit a couple of shots early and that gave me confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42158</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[I almost don't know where to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief,   The trophy of thy paler form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36764]]></link><description><![CDATA[This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese public, I mourn for those who perished in battles and lost their lives in the horrors of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66434]]></link><description><![CDATA[What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps him who strives hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19159]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps him who strives hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean any particular part of the Church; what we do mean is that conversion must leave one linked in loving fellowship with one's fellow believers. Conversion is not something simply between a man and Jesus Christ, with no other person involved. True, it may start in that way; but it cannot end in that way. Conversion is not individualistic. It is, in fact, just the opposite. It joins man to his fellow men, and certainly does not separate him from them. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Handmaiden of the Sciences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;  Omitted, all the voyage of their life   Is bound in shallows and in miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,  Yet 'tis Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,  Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly,   Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky.    Then let the good Thy mighty name revere,     And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59529</guid></item></channel></rss>