<?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 difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ... That is obviously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ... That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64195]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48793]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56812]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All he needs is a little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All he needs is a little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38173</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[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45787]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!   What man can look on Death unterrified?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954</guid></item></channel></rss>