<?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[No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery  Shall have the fame. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13256]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery  Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar   Grew faw with feasting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I hit it pretty good and made most of the putts that are looked at. It was a good putting day basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63773]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll have a fling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll have a fling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19462]]></link><description><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18226]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14740]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?  He barr'd from every use of wealth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?  He barr'd from every use of wealth,   Envies the ploughman's strength and health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15461]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!  Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a little thing a little displeaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a little thing a little displeaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,  And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth   That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a core group of some of the best players in Georgia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41722]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a core group of some of the best players in Georgia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9665]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,   We start, for soul is wanting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284</guid></item></channel></rss>