<?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[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11478]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I;  Cleon dwelleth in a place,--   In a cottage I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16491]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst and deserved it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presumably there would be facts and documents of Intel that it does not necessarily want to broadcast to the public, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presumably there would be facts and documents of Intel that it does not necessarily want to broadcast to the public,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better bend than break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17237]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,   But covers all the bank with blue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21963</guid></item></channel></rss>