<?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[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46827]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969]]></link><description><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969</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/47653]]></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/47653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778]]></link><description><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33996]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions Gate Films agreed to make the film. They liked the idea of a sports movie where spelling was the sport, something that might be compared to 'Hoosiers' or other good sports movies, but with a younger lead character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55538]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20839]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49117]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Asse endures his burden, but not more then his burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work, but there are a lot of examples that say, 'Better to leave well alone and do what you can as a reporter.' You do get into situations where you think, 'What should I do? Shouldn't I intervene? Shouldn't I do something?' I think if you get to that point you have to make a decision. I've said to people, if you feel it's wrong just being a reporter and you can't do enough, well it's time to become an aid worker and train to be someone who really knows what to do. No good standing around snapping a notebook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were standing around offensively. We were not as fluid or crisp as we were in the first quarter. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were standing around offensively. We were not as fluid or crisp as we were in the first quarter. There was some hesitation there. I'm not sure I know why. It just happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51978]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989</guid></item></channel></rss>