<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>History - 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[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66635]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66498]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65648]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65058]]></link><description><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64666]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History does not always repeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64138]]></link><description><![CDATA[History does not always repeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63490]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19563]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main thing is to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550]]></link><description><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19548]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item></channel></rss>