<?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[A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a great guitar player. He's worth the $5 alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a great guitar player. He's worth the $5 alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,   As I do thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,  His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,   His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61169]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the unfolding of miscalculations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25665]]></link><description><![CDATA[First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plough the sand on the sea shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plough the sand on the sea shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws a curve, drop and rise. She has made the move offensively to a left-handed slap hitter and now a left-handed hitter who can hit it over your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich with the spoils of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . .  Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16673]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . .  Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword   Fallen Kosciusco.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35327]]></link><description><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it starting to move up significantly, it's very difficult for them psychologically to move away from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak, or be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item></channel></rss>