<?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[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/126]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I like about being an actress is acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where itlooks impossible, and then gets discouraged. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where itlooks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place tobecome discouraged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12030]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are going to have to do whatever it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us.   And foolish notion;    What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,     And ev'n devotion!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you wearing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you wearing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item></channel></rss>