<?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['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42744]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less strange the prodigal should waste   His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28029]]></link><description><![CDATA[LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great effect on the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47297]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good finds good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good finds good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing! Meet the moon upon the lea;  Are the emeralds of the spring   On the angler's trysting-tree?    Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me,     Are there buds on our willow-tree?      Buds and birds on our trysting tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44125]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36254]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,   A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30643]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117]]></link><description><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu bug might hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621</guid></item></channel></rss>