<?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[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in our goals to the point of acting upon them as though they are real already is the ultimate test of our faith and faithfulness -- and the ultimate trigger for their realization when the time is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real surprised. The ref said I did it intentionally, but there's no way. That's sad the ref would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real surprised. The ref said I did it intentionally, but there's no way. That's sad the ref would impact the game like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12989]]></link><description><![CDATA[If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then, all of a sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man, those ducks really take off! Also, Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2436]]></link><description><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a bromide? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a bromide?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58566]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15836]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16691</guid></item></channel></rss>