<?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[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37760]]></link><description><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be cured is half way towards cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49547]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45218]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look you! I myself am nearest to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men,  Strain not the laws to make their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52546]]></link><description><![CDATA[See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men,  Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899]]></link><description><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' **********WinstonChurchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorisinguse of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (BritishPetroleum) in the last 100 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for the woman in a kiss,   At once I wis,    My soul will wake!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rose, what is become of thy delicate hue? And where is the violet's beautiful blue?  Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile?   That meadow, those daisies, why do they not smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437]]></link><description><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them. All too often, evangelicals are paper people. If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian classroom, we cannot expect Christians so to act. This has always been important, but it is especially so today because we are surrounded by a world in which personality is increasingly eroded. If we, who have become God's children, do not show Him to be personal in our lives, then in practice we are denying His existence, and He cannot be anything but grieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47973]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The PA Interior Ministry is playing the role of the ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The PA Interior Ministry is playing the role of the]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53847</guid></item></channel></rss>