<?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[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was proud of the girls for hanging in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was proud of the girls for hanging in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse.  He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,   And that a Lord may be an owl,    A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,     And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all across the trees    In yellow like Chinese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   The manifestation of God in the flesh, the Evangelists set down by way of a history; the Apostle goes farther, and finds a deep mystery in it, and for a mystery commends it to us. Now there is difference between these two--many, this for one: that a man may hear a story and never wash his hands; but a mystery requires both the hands and the heart to be clean that shall deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18575]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of justice, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;   And they gave me this jolly red nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099]]></link><description><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more concerned than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him moaning and groaning. It was really sad to see a guy be in that much pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him moaning and groaning. It was really sad to see a guy be in that much pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,   Dips under the water clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58450</guid></item></channel></rss>