<?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[Don't fight forces, use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically we have seen strong home improvement spending in the wake of a slow economy. The stock market has been less secure in the last 18 months or so than it had previously been. So instead of the stock market, people were investing in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the summer cost increases. Unfortunately, they're already in the stratosphere and still headed north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary    And pitch our evils there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden from us by an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle  The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden from us by an irrelevant personal argument. We see that many articulate secularists are well-meaning and law-abiding men; we see them go into righteous indignation over injustice and often devote their lives to good works. So we conclude that "he can't be wrong whose life is in the right" -- that their philosophies are just as good guides to action as Christianity. What we don't see is that they are not acting on their philosophies. They are acting, out of habit or sentiment, on an inherited Christian ethic which they still take for granted though they have rejected the creed from which it sprang. Their children will inherit some what less of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19441]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's after the rebuilding and getting back into a new home that people may realize the impact of the tornado.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing only leads to more writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59572]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so   Who art not missed by any that entreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:  Earth lies laughing where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:  Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her:   Love lies bleeding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14622]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cases are unique and very similar to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45303</guid></item></channel></rss>