<?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 happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. It's up to the administration to give him the resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow it down little bit and try to run what we want to run. They may have some depth, and I don't. We'll have to prepare for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26810]]></link><description><![CDATA[As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26810</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[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still ending, and beginning still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26292]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is part of how we play. We play in streaks and their goalie did a real good job in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30565]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is part of how we play. We play in streaks and their goalie did a real good job in the second quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses muchmore;he who loses faith loses all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53587]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses muchmore;he who loses faith loses all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8909]]></link><description><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad,   And wafted up to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zebra fish is ideal because you can freeze the entire fish. Normal freezing is not conducted because it would be too slow and cause ice crystals to form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item></channel></rss>