<?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[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The killers are still inside the National Penitentiary, and we have to be prepared for new incidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nineties style isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss  A jewel in the mirror).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65255]]></link><description><![CDATA[By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe I've ever caused all three turnovers in a game and gotten two of them. That was awesome. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe I've ever caused all three turnovers in a game and gotten two of them. That was awesome. But what makes it better is that we won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, And turn again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, And turn again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omittance is no quittance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just shook his head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29117]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just shook his head,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife withmischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world tojustify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reallyattractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33029]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian and Carlton best-and-fairest winner in 1999, is believed to have told the club that he intends to retire but has been persuaded by Sheedy to reconsider.] Sheeds wanted him to stay and even James Hird spoke with him, ... They wanted him to go another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20973]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim;  So in Art's wide kingdom ranges   One sole meaning still the same:    This is Truth, eternal Reason,     Which from Beauty takes its dress,      And serene through time and season       Stands aye in loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64799]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been a soldier, Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been a soldier, Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20518]]></link><description><![CDATA[And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him and the others it is a reward to be selected in the team and this will be a great incentive for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804]]></link><description><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know,  To make men happy, and to keep them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13745</guid></item></channel></rss>