<?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[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.   - William Edmondstoune Aytoun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32897]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in thephysical realm is within the field of possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in thephysical realm is within the field of possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus  Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough   The characters of Hell to trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49880</guid></item></channel></rss>