<?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[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa.   Bene est, cui Deus obtulit    Parca, quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me!  Its merry architects so small   Had scarcely finished their wee hall,    That empty still, and nest and fair,     Hung idly in the summer air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1316]]></link><description><![CDATA[When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38397]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53443]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item></channel></rss>