<?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[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in Indonesia. But they keep telling me to change the name Playboy, not the content. It's ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55779]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39594]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had 50 firefighters on the ground and 17 fire trucks. We fought the fire for five hours. The third floor suffered extensive fire damage and is a total loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was definitely a way to make extra change. I got some gloves from Emmitt, Michael and Deion and went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was definitely a way to make extra change. I got some gloves from Emmitt, Michael and Deion and went back to school the next day and made some money. That was the cool thing about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been promised. That 'someday' when things are supposed to be perfect... the 'someday' when I find my place in this unforgiving world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to be wild - live to outgrow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  If there were a righteousness which a man could have of his own, then we should have to concern ourselves with the question of how it can be imparted to him. But there is not. The idea of a righteousness of one's own is the quintessence of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less is only more where more is no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less is only more where more is no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63671</guid></item></channel></rss>