<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499]]></link><description><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legally all member states that apply reduced rates, they have to come back to the minimum standard VAT rate in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Legally all member states that apply reduced rates, they have to come back to the minimum standard VAT rate in the European Union, which is 15 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66269]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best year as far as vehicles produced and sold, probably one of the worst in terms of corresponding profitability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,  Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,   Survey our empire, and behold our home!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the most tolerable third party ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the most tolerable third party]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to shoot when you turn the ball over before you get the opportunity to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61658]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14583]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5697]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559]]></link><description><![CDATA[[And now that he's graduated to hardcover and 11-city book tour status, he's found there's a real advantage to the standalone novels that Dutton suggested he write.] You can explore broader themes in a standalone novel, ... You can put your character through much greater levels of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item></channel></rss>