<?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[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23443]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54586]]></link><description><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the best site in Bellefonte. They have a wonderful tradition of success with Schnitzels and Daniels. To take that gamble to rebuild, it will pay off. The community is behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed  A youth, who bore, 'mid snow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed  A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice   A banner with the strange device,    Excelsior!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32229]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't use makeup and wigs to have Peri and Teri look like Sara and Yvonne, but the roles were challenging because they had to portray them in three stages of their lives, from their 20s, 40s to their 60s,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.  [Ger., Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewohnt,   Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;   There's many another Inn in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volumes so far are low and I believe we will end (the day) in the black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14158]]></link><description><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus  Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;   Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61310]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!  Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,   The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61310</guid></item></channel></rss>