<?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[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three women make a market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three women make a market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care that we received. And now we know that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46985]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13022]]></link><description><![CDATA[See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.... rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63907]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can plant a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can plant a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto  Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36301]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk of the devil, and his horns appear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess  (As I confess it is my nature's plague   To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy    Shapes faults that are not), that your wisdom yet     From one that so imperfectly conjects      Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble       Out of his scattering and unsure observance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fierce March weather White waves break tether,  And whirled together   At either hand,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26373]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fierce March weather White waves break tether,  And whirled together   At either hand,    Like weeds uplifted,     The tree-trunks rifted      In spars are drifted,       Like foam or sand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item></channel></rss>