<?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[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42545]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thinking was a little off and too complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50392]]></link><description><![CDATA[While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater  It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen   We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27893]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to see where they had died. The lady drew it on the map, and we drove here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to see where they had died. The lady drew it on the map, and we drove here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/386]]></link><description><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his guru Yogananda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48699]]></link><description><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27959]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30056]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop wasting all your time giving someone a second chance, when there's someone better out there waiting for their first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop wasting all your time giving someone a second chance, when there's someone better out there waiting for their first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.   Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but     A dagger of the mind, a false creation      Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?       I see thee yet, in form as palpable        As this which now I draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we had one (prairie dog) die, it was right under the swing set - right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item></channel></rss>