<?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 one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take a lot of pride in that. We have a big veteran group here. We've been working hard since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take a lot of pride in that. We have a big veteran group here. We've been working hard since Day 1 of training camp, and we are coming together. We are focusing on what needs to be done, and a lot of us understand that every week. We try to do our best to keep the old man on his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aesthetics happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there aren't any businesses there (in that annexed section) to speak of, just residents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42162]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there aren't any businesses there (in that annexed section) to speak of, just residents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65010]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud display; yet take this truth from me--   Virtue alone is true nobility!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still on their dinner turn--   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,    And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history, only biography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history, only biography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very, very worried because if the province or the [federal government] or even if the municipality could give them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very, very worried because if the province or the [federal government] or even if the municipality could give them a tax cut then what's fair for one is fair for all. They'd want it here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54043]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense was dominant, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense was dominant,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26510]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22039]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are enforcing the provisions of the contract we signed with our pilot employees when they joined the company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38977]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are enforcing the provisions of the contract we signed with our pilot employees when they joined the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private victories precede public victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item></channel></rss>