<?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[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps.Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7728]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover   A prisoner of war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover   A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. •Sir Winston Churchill  The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall find the rugged thistle bursting Into glossy purples, that outredden  All voluptuous garden roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51697]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall find the rugged thistle bursting Into glossy purples, that outredden  All voluptuous garden roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27350]]></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 blest;   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.    'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes     The throned monarch better than his crown.      His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,       The attribute to awe and majesty,        Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;         But mercy is above this scept'red sway;          It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;           It is an attribute to God himself,            And earthly power doth then show likest God's             When mercy seasons justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suing a government entity is always a little more difficult than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be honest, it was kind of a 50-50 decision at the time because I was looking forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be honest, it was kind of a 50-50 decision at the time because I was looking forward to signing a contract, but wanted to be as sure as I could that we would be back in the Premiership,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd,  Or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</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[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it up again very fast. He actually turned into a really good worker and adapted to the WWE style, meaning he did more than just shoot-style stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Issues can be addressed without the interference of a third party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Issues can be addressed without the interference of a third party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26528]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27732]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967</guid></item></channel></rss>