<?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[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's like my baby. If I leave her alone for a few hours, she gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29324]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's like my baby. If I leave her alone for a few hours, she gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!    Christ is risen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38884]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have to work, ... It gives me something to push for and it keeps me humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48775]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas! said the Horse, if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25456]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63571]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who angers you conquers you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63032</guid></item></channel></rss>