<?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[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who contributes to the defense fundof pornographers is a mental moonbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,--   Hurrah for the next that dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really excited about this. It's a great chance to showcase our league here in this city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To leave this keen encounter of our wits. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55998]]></link><description><![CDATA[To leave this keen encounter of our wits. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have triedand succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through   Under the Andes to the Cape,    Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, thecontinents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion ofknowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now I can't believe it. I think we're a good team but something happened and I don't know what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now I can't believe it. I think we're a good team but something happened and I don't know what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37559]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the standalone novels that Dutton suggested he write.] You can explore broader themes in a standalone novel, ... You can put your character through much greater levels of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29136]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are coming back that haven't been in years. It's like moths to a flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45959]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932]]></link><description><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43759</guid></item></channel></rss>