<?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[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled] The World Without Zionism ... To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54631]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the biggest tournament of the season outside of the regional and state championships. All of the top players are going to be there, and it should be a good preview of the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are loaded pistols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensationand specificity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which seizes   The trusting bosom, when betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item></channel></rss>