<?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[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to it. The great thing about [Jo] is that she can take what's thrown her way and handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg.  We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart,   But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46758]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience revels in misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26805]]></link><description><![CDATA[As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the bats to let it rip. We have to have situational hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance is not something weacquire. It is something we tune into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled.   - William Lloyd Garrison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51181]]></link><description><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hadn't wasted any time at all to try to return these people's lives to somewhat of a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37034]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hadn't wasted any time at all to try to return these people's lives to somewhat of a sense of normalcy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40894]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437</guid></item></channel></rss>