<?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[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,  Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, then you can't take it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55421]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37783]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary neo-pagan values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And the temples of his gods?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a dish best served cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63691]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The occupation will pay a heavy price for this crime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten'; he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray,--  My brother man, Beware!   With that deep voice which from the skies    Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice.     God's angel, cries, Forbear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item></channel></rss>