<?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[Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation's history. The disruption of our oil supply was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Highness, we are at a critical juncture in our nation's history. The disruption of our oil supply was the final straw. It wrecked the economy. Japan is in ruins; millions are out of work. We must repair the damage and ensure it never happens again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50900]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,    He shall not blind his soul with clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout,  Our blindness is a dark profound,   Our deafness each one laughs about.    Then reason's light with falling ray     Doth but a trembling flicker cast.      Honor to age, ye children pay!       Alas! my fifty years are past!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51891]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:  And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated 24 cases of Scotch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we loved to be there and it did have a great old personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit in the second game, but we couldn't keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont   To throng for trade and last quotations;    Where, hour, by hour, the rates of gold     Outrival, in the ears of people,      The quarter-chimes, serenely tolled       From Trinity's undaunted steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming in my freshman year we were a .500 team. Ohio State hasn't done it since the 1980s, so it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming in my freshman year we were a .500 team. Ohio State hasn't done it since the 1980s, so it means a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375</guid></item></channel></rss>