<?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[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak; confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him; and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all, by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40961]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we're playing defense behind her, we're going to do OK. Erica was good with her rhythm, but we didn't make any mistakes behind her. If we continue to do this, we're going to surprise some people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at large will feel like it's moving through molasses, even though it will be moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others. [Lat., Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens.  Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36376]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!  Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!  Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among,   I woo, to hear thy even-song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52391]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good clothes open all doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good clothes open all doors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty fun. I'd try it again definitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28389]]></link><description><![CDATA["ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60139]]></link><description><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23104]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22099]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10440</guid></item></channel></rss>