<?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[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have some good running backs ... they look much improved from last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is a two-way street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is a two-way street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and ahalf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41716]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the giver more than the gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the giver more than the gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14794]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27543]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54924]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16770]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe;   The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.   - edited by John Payne Collier,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath,  For a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46048]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15760]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60933]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4702</guid></item></channel></rss>