<?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[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15316]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth   And know not laughter's worth.    I have known laughter--therefore I     May sorrow with you far more tenderly      Than those who never guess how sad a thing       Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They figured they would be moving, downsizing or able to pay it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35329]]></link><description><![CDATA[They figured they would be moving, downsizing or able to pay it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679</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[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the only absolute thing in the world. Nothing stays the same.Tomorrow will come,with new beginnings and sometimes unexpected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the only absolute thing in the world. Nothing stays the same.Tomorrow will come,with new beginnings and sometimes unexpected endings. You can hold on to the past and get left in the dust, or you can choose to jump on the ride of life and live a new adventure with perseverance and an open mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer is the engineer of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a man's face, I now   Say what I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a verb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a verb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike requited,   Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49654]]></link><description><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16560]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16560</guid></item></channel></rss>