<?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[If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65591]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want,with whom you want, as much as you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither goest thou? [Lat., Quo vadis?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither goest thou? [Lat., Quo vadis?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25919]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4942]]></link><description><![CDATA[On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55106]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade;  Where rumor of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Kitchin makes a large house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss   I carried from thee dear; and my true lip    Hath virgined it e'er since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some book there is that she desires to see. Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.  But thou art deeper read and better skilled:   Come and take choice of all my library,    And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens     Reveal the damned contriver of this deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56100]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item></channel></rss>