<?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[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail,  And give her to the God of storms,   The lightning and the gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52943]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16876]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the more I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek. The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss, for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity, desiring to see you with the light of your light. As the hart desires the springs of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see you in truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55474]]></link><description><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get healthy. We had a couple starters out for the Southwest game, and a couple people that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get healthy. We had a couple starters out for the Southwest game, and a couple people that hadn't practiced. P.J. Gardner missed the game against Southwest, but he'll be back on the O-line. We're working on basic stuff, not looking to change much, just looking to continue to improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are willing to cooperate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are willing to cooperate,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36878]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the families will be given a thorough medical and criminal history check, ... Once they are cleared, they can then transition up here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10909</guid></item></channel></rss>