<?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[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49965]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9185]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217]]></link><description><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food program inspection contract. I and others have stated this fact repeatedly. I am not aware of anyone who states otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498]]></link><description><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they truly loved the watches, ... When I design something and I love it myself, I know it's going to be big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible / it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;  Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads   The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,   In all the spread of it,    From foot to head,     Not heroes bled for it,      Faced steel and lead for it,       Precious blood shed for it,        Bathing in red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10647]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45383]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,   To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:    A lily of a day     Is fairer far in May,      Although it falls and die that night--       It was the plant and flower of Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature drawes more then ten teemes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are your choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are your choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolores Stephan to me is almost as good as Phil Crane himself. She's the one who put him in office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dolores Stephan to me is almost as good as Phil Crane himself. She's the one who put him in office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39826</guid></item></channel></rss>