<?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 aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345]]></link><description><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will be cutting (rates) until they get some signs of rebound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37053]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will be cutting (rates) until they get some signs of rebound,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel the presence of the Fairies and the Indians and the Pirates and the lost boys of Never-Never-Never Land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, these girls just attack the ball. Whether it's in the air or on the ground, they go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian musicians are certainly as talented as any performers in mainstream music. Yet, these Christian artists also have positive images ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian musicians are certainly as talented as any performers in mainstream music. Yet, these Christian artists also have positive images and messages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is only one letter short of danger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is only one letter short of danger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform policies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39860]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform policies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is what I think is right. I've always tried to build relationships with people on campus, and I think they know what kind of person I am. ... I think I feel as secure as I can be, given the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[De ce să repetăm greşelile înaintaşilor, cand sunt atâtea noi greşeli de făcut? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65138]]></link><description><![CDATA[De ce să repetăm greşelile înaintaşilor, cand sunt atâtea noi greşeli de făcut?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the dead who do not return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the dead who do not return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39189]]></link><description><![CDATA[I average 250 miles a day in this car. I fill up every day, going to the cheapest pump I can find going home, and it costs $35 to $50. That cuts into my profit quite a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,  Fair as the guardian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,  Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,   Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl    His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite     To sooty blackness from the purest white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe bind, safe find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe bind, safe find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48291]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435]]></link><description><![CDATA[One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12060]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item></channel></rss>