<?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[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1695]]></link><description><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home- yea, I'm always at Om.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defensively, I thought we played pretty well with the exception of a couple plays. But we had some opportunities on offense, and I'm disappointed we didn't capitalize on those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them glad,   With such service as they had--    When they had dined, as I you say,     Lordis and ladies yede to play;      Some to tables and some to chess,       With other games more and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I implore you in God's name, not to think of Him as hard to please, but rather as generous beyond all that you can ask or think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14978]]></link><description><![CDATA[O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,  Your locks were like the raven,   Your bonny brow was brent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope we can keep this up and carry it on the good road ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   Of his majestic reign;    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522]]></link><description><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216]]></link><description><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64929</guid></item></channel></rss>