<?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[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too,  That makes himself, but for our honor therein,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10797]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too,  That makes himself, but for our honor therein,   Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou    These rural latches to his entrance open,     Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,      I will devise a death as cruel for thee       As thou art tender to't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new and different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19882]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16173]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom. [Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humanitarian issues have provided an opportunity to the two governments to rise above their historical differences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humanitarian issues have provided an opportunity to the two governments to rise above their historical differences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing,  She is a bonny wee thing,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61872]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing,  She is a bonny wee thing,   This sweet wee wife o' mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're going to try to make a positive out of it, ... We will have a professional working relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws   The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.    Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;      Woods and groves are of thy dressing,       Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing,        Thus we salute thee with our early song,         And welcome thee, and wish thee long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a thing loves, it is infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20816]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a thing loves, it is infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52986</guid></item></channel></rss>