<?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[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. 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/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing devised by the enemy. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens doors no one can close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's crime rates, the political situation and public life allow us to hold the elections because a civil society has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's crime rates, the political situation and public life allow us to hold the elections because a civil society has been built in the Chechen republic,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</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[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order;  But where ye feel your honor grip,   Let that aye be your border.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remittances are for the early graduation expenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61331]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66114]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item></channel></rss>