<?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[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone. And that is to lead the Columbus Crew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone. And that is to lead the Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52452]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58558]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and His Angels thither; and when they are there, I neglect God and His Angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161]]></link><description><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161</guid></item></channel></rss>