<?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[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's overreaching on many levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17444]]></link><description><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49038]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got beat from the outside again. Three-pointers are killing us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got beat from the outside again. Three-pointers are killing us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never wrongeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, he's in your ear screaming. It's new, but I think it's going to be good for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66565]]></link><description><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51491]]></link><description><![CDATA[But this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning  Make the prize light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to keep our heads up and play the ball we've been playing. We got to beat Robinson. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to keep our heads up and play the ball we've been playing. We got to beat Robinson. We have to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29076]]></link><description><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it appears that the current laws are working efficiently,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16171]]></link><description><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.   Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750</guid></item></channel></rss>