<?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[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257]]></link><description><![CDATA[No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11818]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached toneeding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know if it would be feasible for the bonding company to take over (Smith & Johnson). There may not be any employee infrastructure to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,   A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him some time to adjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very exciting time to join United. The company is in a significantly better position to compete in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46120]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs,  Some awake and some asleep,   Sleeping in our crowns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs,  Some awake and some asleep,   Sleeping in our crowns.    What perchance our dreams may know,     Let our serious may know.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28023]]></link><description><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone looks at the records and talks about how this team plays so many sub-.500 teams and this team plays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone looks at the records and talks about how this team plays so many sub-.500 teams and this team plays so many teams above .500, and it's all a load of crap. You've got to go out and win your games no matter what anyone else does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly--  One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; and therefore, says David, The Lord reigneth, let the Islands rejoice -- the Islands who by reason of their situation, provision, and trading have most means of conveying Christ Jesus over the world. He hath carried us up to heaven & set us at the right hand of God, & shall not we endeavour to carry him to those nations, who have not yet heard of his name? Shall we still brag that we have brought our clothes, and our hatchets, and our knives, and bread to this and this value and estimation amongst those poor ignorant Souls, and shall we never glory that we have brought the name, and Religion of Christ Jesus in estimation amongst them? Shall we stay till other nations have planted a false Christ among them? And then either continue in our sloth, or take more pains in rooting out a false Christ than would have planted the true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16389</guid></item></channel></rss>