<?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[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They see themselves as leaders. They also found out you can't have a global city and a closed one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;  Her eyebrow's shape was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;  Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow,   Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth,    Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow,     As if her veins ran lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead could not speak against thewar from Vietnam.Who to speak for them if not Kerry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right from the beginning, ... he said, 'You should do all your routines in that voice.' And I said, 'But I can't stand that voice.' And he said, 'But it's funny. It makes people laugh.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37855]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked on a few things to help improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from companies...The only way for someone to own U.K. stock trading is to own the LSE.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erik was running slow, he was pacing me. This was a great race and a great day, the weather was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erik was running slow, he was pacing me. This was a great race and a great day, the weather was very nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51666]]></link><description><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228</guid></item></channel></rss>