<?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[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen him there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen him there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</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[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43355]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law has no power over heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law has no power over heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6121]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25992]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66740]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to give birth to someone to have a family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,   The mind annihilates, and calls for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441</guid></item></channel></rss>