<?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[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves  And, heedless of censorious eyes,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12805]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves  And, heedless of censorious eyes,   Pursue their unpolluted joys:    No fears of future want molest     The downy quiet of their nest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27680]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could very well get back into the playoffs with this caliber team. We're going to be young, and they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could very well get back into the playoffs with this caliber team. We're going to be young, and they're going to make some mistakes along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather have people just not commit the crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  True spiritual power of the Christian order is a kind of possessedness. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  True spiritual power of the Christian order is a kind of possessedness. It arises in and flows through a life hid with Christ in God. Its source is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the potency of the Holy Spirit. True spiritual power is the child of two parents: the truth as it is revealed in Jesus and our own experience resulting upon our acceptance of Him and His truth. The objective factor is that whole set of facts and truths, of historic events, and of interpretation of them, which is held by the church and set forth in the Bible. The subjective factor is what happens in the crucible of your life and mine when we accept the set of facts and truths and interpretations, and it begins to work in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5019]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who limps is still walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61092]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who limps is still walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13346]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41294]]></link><description><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleveland County was lucky through that whole period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're delighted with the quality of all submissions. We are committed to publishing as many new voices as possible. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're delighted with the quality of all submissions. We are committed to publishing as many new voices as possible. Our main focus is commercial entertainment. We don't focus on category, or any specialty beyond entertaining audiences with fresh voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15889]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is rich is wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item></channel></rss>