<?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[Who dare to love their country, and be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dare to love their country, and be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good night! I have to say good night, To such a host of peerless things!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45553</guid></item><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[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasuries seem to be overly happy and emerging markets seem to be quite content also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treasuries seem to be overly happy and emerging markets seem to be quite content also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky  Refuses ae weep drap o' rain   To Nature parched and dry,    The genial night, wi' balmy breath,     Gars verdue, spring anew,      An' ilka blade o' grass       Keps its ain drap o' dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free handset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ours too long and to rediscover the real Christ, the Christ of the prophets and the martyrs and the confessors, the Christ who is not only the lover of souls but also master, a monarch with demands to make in industry, in finance, in education, in the arts, in marriage, in the home; the Christ who is teacher of a social ideology which has eternal validity; the Christ who cries aloud with convincing force, "He who would save his life will lose it; only he who is willing to lose his life, can find it.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day - and earn it,' was the cogent reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more than kin, and less than kind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more than kin, and less than kind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41308]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against Iran that Iran is under a military minded government and leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person and a great friend, and he's helped us all understand his culture a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense. and my evening meal,  The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was a bright guy. He had a lot of good travel skills, obviously. Many (escapees) just stay right around Salem, so we've been able to bring them back into the hospital. We haven't been that lucky with Richard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night;  Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell--   Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60311]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament  I should not alter in my faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14975]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament  I should not alter in my faith of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been found   By some to be the most profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623</guid></item></channel></rss>