<?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[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55768]]></link><description><![CDATA[An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I' ld have challenged him. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30781]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19849]]></link><description><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. [Lat., Ardua cervix,  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3942]]></link><description><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again;  The moving mountains hear the powerful call.   And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31263]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31923]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have a single phone number we can call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What weperceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon whatwe think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceivedetermines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to betrue. what we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30650]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't played since last Friday and I think because of that we were a little bit sluggish. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't played since last Friday and I think because of that we were a little bit sluggish. I am not pleased at all. Danville was tough on defense but we really didn't shoot well, especially in the first quarter. We weren't ready to play and we will have to increase our intensity to win this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a student at Columbia, I can say that I've experienced both on-campus and online coursework. If I had to pick the top five courses of my entire experience, two of them were online. I know that with the right instructor and set-up, learning online can be just as fulfilling, if not more so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61627</guid></item></channel></rss>