<?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[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below,  Over the housetops, over the street,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below,  Over the housetops, over the street,   Over the heads of the people you meet.    Dancing,     Flirting,      Skimming along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree,  How will their grudging stomachs be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12563]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree,  How will their grudging stomachs be provoked   To willfull disobedience, and rebel!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl. To round out the betting experience for our players, Bodog.com has been offering a wide variety of quality and unique proposition wagers for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a Tartar]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619]]></link><description><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37570]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and down my bench and see a lot of guys who have had gold medals around their necks. That's a big advantage in a game like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30949]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48198]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's 'paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! Can I really be expected to take this seriously?In fact, of course, it is necessary for it to be nonsense; if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the 'emperor's new cloths' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite, make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this 'art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41233]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart must now be grieved to see   The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36574]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62994]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33173]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's getting better every week. He's kind of quiet, but that can be good sometimes. He just goes out there and does his job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know no evil will suspect none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11236]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know no evil will suspect none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14682</guid></item></channel></rss>