<?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[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The captive birds no longer flewTheir cadaverous bodies giving fluand Avian Spongiform Encephalopathy.. Mad Chicken Mad Turkey Mad Birdin Aviano and everywhere daily grew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.   - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (2),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927]]></link><description><![CDATA[One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's different in college. You're playing smaller guys who are a little bit harder to hit, but out here [in the NHL] it seems like some guys don't expect it sometimes, so I get those shots in when I can. It differs from team to team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,   And neither way inclines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13843]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13288]]></link><description><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62035]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46046]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56740]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the house is finisht, leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Marquis Jets, we carefully vet our partners to ensure that we only align ourselves with the finest brands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39849]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Marquis Jets, we carefully vet our partners to ensure that we only align ourselves with the finest brands, and Grand Isle Villas provides the comfort and service that our owners have come to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is not granted to men in this world, but a foretaste thereof --he has a secret joy which is beyond the reach of temptation, unrest, and sorrow; a quiet confidence and steadfastness which abide even while the waves and storms of life sweep over him... When the soul has sincerely given itself up to God, He fills it with His own peace, a peace which makes all earthly things indifferent -- as before His Presence, absorbing the heart. It is our strength, our comfort, our guide, the deeper and more confirmed it becomes, the greater our spiritual perfection; so that in truth to obtain and preserve this peace is the real secret of the interior life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers   Will ne'er make grow againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49663]]></link><description><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither bribe nor loose thy right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a disposable society, but here, you keep and reuse. I once ordered a part and had it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a disposable society, but here, you keep and reuse. I once ordered a part and had it delivered. The part was $10. The delivery was $90. After that, you tend to weigh those decisions a little more carefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32741]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball right now and that we sent a message tonight to the rest of the county: Meade is no pushover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mary is already a winner, with a free trip to Las Vegas worth a few grand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51260</guid></item></channel></rss>