<?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 monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10338]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth;  And sometimes, running o'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth;  And sometimes, running o'er the plain,   He tumbles on his nose:    But quickly jumping up again,     Like lightning on he goes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small-business salaries are rising from the dead. That's good news for small business employees, but it may not be great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small-business salaries are rising from the dead. That's good news for small business employees, but it may not be great news for the overall economy. Inflation is rearing its ugly head and may soon stifle economic growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25749]]></link><description><![CDATA[To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's memory is his private literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's memory is his private literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black holes are where God divided by zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black holes are where God divided by zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true beginning of our end. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story. It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening year,   I listen, and it cheers me long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the daughter of Basra, ... We will never lose our kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the daughter of Basra, ... We will never lose our kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs composed  To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs composed  To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us   To chide him from our eaves, for he persists    As if his life lay on't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property has its duties as well as its rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property has its duties as well as its rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47762</guid></item></channel></rss>