<?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[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</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[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51640]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly a large premium on oil prices due to the ongoing tensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. •Muhammad Ali  Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. •Unknown  Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. •Anonymous   My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. •Anonymous   Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21197]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15308]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15308</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[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no way we're going to get him on that bus ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not even on a helicopter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no way we're going to get him on that bus ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not even on a helicopter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with so high an intention as to serve God therein better than in far more important things done with a less pure intention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item></channel></rss>