<?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[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said,   "Whose image never may depart,    Deep graven on this grateful heart,     Till memory be dead."      . . . .       St. Leon paused, as if he would        Not breathe her name in careless mood         Thus lightly to another;          Then bent his noble head, as though           To give the word the reverence due,            And gently said, "My mother!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly direct transfers to the Iraqi central bank to finance the war with Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound    (So should desert in arms be crowned).     The lovely Thais by his side,      Sate like a blooming Eastern bride       In flower of youth and beauty's pride.        Happy, happy, happy pair!         None but the brave,          None but the brave,           None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's talk withal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our Triple-A roster, particularly the rotation because there are so many good young arms there. It's hard to handicap teams at Triple-A, because you don't know what the league will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29718]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for you. The loss and anguish you caused this community will never be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has said to the senator he disagrees with him. He believes he's going to be a good ally in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has said to the senator he disagrees with him. He believes he's going to be a good ally in the Senate to enact the kind of property tax relief that has eluded this governor for four years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--   A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods    Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,     Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods      The rugged tree unto the summer wind,       Compassion breathes along the savage mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity College Dublin needed a high performance, scalable, yet affordable solution to accelerate important research and scientific discoveries. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity College Dublin needed a high performance, scalable, yet affordable solution to accelerate important research and scientific discoveries. We are very pleased that the college selected Voltaire and IBM to meet these requirements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66886</guid></item></channel></rss>