<?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[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17289]]></link><description><![CDATA[First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone,   With all his line of fathers known;    Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,     But blown abroad by the pride within;      His mane is like a river flowing,       And his eyes like embers glowing        In the darkness of the night,         And his pace as swift as light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which way the goalies' lean and he can shoot with both feet. Off the ball he makes great runs. For me, around the goal he's one of the best finishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5707]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54092]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast   O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crowd has a silver lining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crowd has a silver lining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509]]></link><description><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our posters got pulled down too, so we decided the best way was with TV, radios and newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our posters got pulled down too, so we decided the best way was with TV, radios and newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new under the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can only help the bottom line of a football club which is a business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can only help the bottom line of a football club which is a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830]]></link><description><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5705]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour   In silence wrote on in the sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item></channel></rss>