<?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["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268]]></link><description><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793]]></link><description><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,   Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3518]]></link><description><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no office hours for leaders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no office hours for leaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   In the next valley-glades:    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?     Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56689]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets   That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know    What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence     As pearls from diamonds dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedomfor raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20118]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedomfor raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know necessarily if we're calling it a rebuilding season. Our expectations are always the same. I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know necessarily if we're calling it a rebuilding season. Our expectations are always the same. I think a lot of people may have counted us out, but we'll gladly take that role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material substance against which one seemed to push when moving about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing gratuitous about my films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32683]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing gratuitous about my films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure he is here watching us and I couldn't be happier for him and for everyone involved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure he is here watching us and I couldn't be happier for him and for everyone involved in Australian soccer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716]]></link><description><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but I'd rather let other people enjoy the surprise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25940</guid></item></channel></rss>