<?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[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45580]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, or both negotiate their differences and create a greater partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63479]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281]]></link><description><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats the drum.The hour of grief.The darkened sun.Thy will be donerolls the drum.The sound of shot.The grave begun.Thy will be donemourns the drum.**by N Marshall Bertsch(N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundlygriefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity, and distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally would like things to settle down before we . . . start monkeying around with something that we don't understand the long-range consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel does not care about the international public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel does not care about the international public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusion is the first of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew;  Who e'er a greater madness knew?   Life to destroy for fear to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were a developer and now we're a producer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2394]]></link><description><![CDATA[America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61228]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61089]]></link><description><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're better right now than at any point last season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're better right now than at any point last season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Batavian graces in all he says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item></channel></rss>