<?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[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46244</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[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23703]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;   Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,    And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;     Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,      Like one another's glass to trim them by;       Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,        And not so much to feed on as delight;         All poverty was scorned, and pride so great          The name of help grew odious to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The visiting munchkins will only be performing in Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The visiting munchkins will only be performing in Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33957]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little kids out in that kind of weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32056]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know who killed Jane. It was Ricky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her.  Briggs of Turlumme owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumme?--   Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in Frisco?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14144]]></link><description><![CDATA[All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21555]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32836]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I want to force them to play me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32836</guid></item></channel></rss>