<?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[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,   Dips under the water clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an awful lot of excitement. These professionals are very critical to us -- they shape customers' perception of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37197]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an awful lot of excitement. These professionals are very critical to us -- they shape customers' perception of the airline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57830]]></link><description><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8805]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27135]]></link><description><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7694]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask. We have only light enough to walk by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33926]]></link><description><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite collecting items and areas of interest.] There can be little doubt that Americana collectors are increasing in numbers, ... With each auction we see new categories of collectibles emerging, many with selling prices that seem to be giving previously obscure items new value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff  And good from bad find no partition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12080</guid></item></channel></rss>