<?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[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41907]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216]]></link><description><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I care not twopence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I care not twopence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4758]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I loved best... We used to read the lives of the Saints together. And when I read of the martyrdoms which they suffered for the love of God, I used to think that they had bought their entry into God's presence very cheaply. Then I fervently longed to die like them, not out of any conscious love for Him, but in order to attain, as quickly as they had, those joys which, as I read, are laid up in Heaven. I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs, and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, so that we might be beheaded there. I believe that our Lord had given us courage enough even at that tender age, if only we could have seen a way. But our parents seemed to us a very great hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take in all, and verge enough for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35018]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really warranted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders and rests his head on my shoulders. He's very loving and listens to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4378]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4378</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[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagusWith tigery stripes, and a face on itRound as the moon, to stare up.I want to be looking at them when they comePicking among the dumb minerals, the roots.I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.They will wonder if I was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, andinfluence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, andinfluence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do cover   The friendless bodies of unburied men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to take advantage of everything. If we have one mismatch we'll ride it as long as we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40409]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to take advantage of everything. If we have one mismatch we'll ride it as long as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43228]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43228</guid></item></channel></rss>