<?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[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936]]></link><description><![CDATA[War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But such as serves a present strait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36983]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42211]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions they can impose. We are pleased. This is what we envisioned as going to happen from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King clearly said he is going to continue his authoritarian rule. It shows there is not going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King clearly said he is going to continue his authoritarian rule. It shows there is not going to be any changes immediately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms,  Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,   And crying havoc on the slug and snail.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;  And (strange to tell) he practis'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;  And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28835]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's wish and no one could do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3800]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item></channel></rss>