<?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[But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56389]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/290]]></link><description><![CDATA[For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life   To feel all feeling die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven seniors on this team and we talked about keeping our composure at halftime. For us, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven seniors on this team and we talked about keeping our composure at halftime. For us, this was a business trip, and tonight we took care of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18940]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37055]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ... as well as providing training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12939]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his arms around me, and when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46985]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades,   Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports)    Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds     No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up a couple times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away. - Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item></channel></rss>