<?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[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19391]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5643]]></link><description><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want of heart.   They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility,    A thing of temperament and not of art,     Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;      And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest       Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.   I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none    Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like these days, people are building silos in their lives. I wanted to restore the relationships and connected-ness of a community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai that in the sight of God there is indeed a difference between the sacred and the profane, but there is no difference between the spiritual and the social.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are rednecks in our society and they can take law into their own hands,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   Our own experience preaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710</guid></item></channel></rss>