<?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[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66269]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57263]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And Christe receive thye saule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42922]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875]]></link><description><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence   Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2812]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7015]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything?  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,   Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination at the TPC,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he had no singing education,   An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hasn't healed yet, but it's functional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hasn't healed yet, but it's functional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek and you will find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek and you will find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information to go before a jury and prove guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no Plan B. So you're a little more exposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41568]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no Plan B. So you're a little more exposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009</guid></item></channel></rss>