<?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[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the seed of ethics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27875]]></link><description><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    With the thought of other years?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52620]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begone about your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begone about your business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47759]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17595]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brownout occurs when you forget what happened until you start hearing about it and then your memory slowly comes back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47948]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's warmer in winter and cooler in summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3910]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item></channel></rss>