<?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[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.  [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira   Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37521]]></link><description><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61704]]></link><description><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,   Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,    Which she will make when summer comes again--     Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,      Like curious Chinese etchings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   That for an hermitage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519</guid></item></channel></rss>