<?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[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They see themselves as leaders. They also found out you can't have a global city and a closed one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</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[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi has set a deadline where they want everything wrapped up by (Thursday).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37388]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we only gave up nine in the half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15640]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a back-and-forth, close game all the way. It was one of those games where we were kind of out of sync at times, but we definitely executed when the game was on the line; all eight players contributed to the win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3316]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721]]></link><description><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25131]]></link><description><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645]]></link><description><![CDATA[My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy ishere./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make othersso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45677]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45677</guid></item></channel></rss>