<?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[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3326]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3038]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea:  But, before I go, Tom Moore,   Here's a double health to thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34849]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the dark clouds of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11525]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten rock that gushes,The trampled steel that springs,,A cheek is always redderJust where the hectic stingsMirth is mail of anguish,In which its cautious armLest anybody spy the bloodAnd, you're hurt exclaim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing reflection of low morale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59536]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Mountains Are Gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31150]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Mountains Are Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item></channel></rss>