<?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[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17981]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31776]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What baron or squire Or knight of the shire  Lives half so well as a holy friar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13240]]></link><description><![CDATA[What baron or squire Or knight of the shire  Lives half so well as a holy friar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review his situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715</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[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all I've heard of, besides people walking around breaking into cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32053]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was there when her mom died. She saw what happened to her mom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50813]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the arm which won the victory he protects the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I can't be out there helping the guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911</guid></item></channel></rss>