<?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[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35774]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19047]]></link><description><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43797]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38411]]></link><description><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3271]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art but a way of seeing?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've won this race three times, so I enjoy being out front. But this is the first time I'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've won this race three times, so I enjoy being out front. But this is the first time I'll be first out of the gate, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to turn my back on him but he always managed to win me over. I know now that I am weak-willed and that I should have moved on with my life but what can I say? He had such a strong hold over me, it was hard for me to deny him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . .   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35207</guid></item></channel></rss>