<?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[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57712]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toughest fight was with my first wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady livin' in the land   As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Victoria but personal feelings have very little to do with business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Victoria but personal feelings have very little to do with business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been creating chances but haven't been finishing. It's such a tough district this year. It's going to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been creating chances but haven't been finishing. It's such a tough district this year. It's going to be a fight to the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and god mercer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</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[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er lesser powers that be;    But a mightier power and stronger     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The further you go in hockey the better the chance of getting your heart ripped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without forgiveness, there's no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without forgiveness, there's no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19323]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't learn less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't learn less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item></channel></rss>