<?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[It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is the best thing we can offer our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,   But in good company--the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422]]></link><description><![CDATA[In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13326]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37546]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34120]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are one!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36441]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5555]]></link><description><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16613]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my priorities is to go to the beach. It's been five years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955]]></link><description><![CDATA[While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,  There musicke with her silver sound,   Is wont with spede to send redresse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more of a secret plan. You'll know it when you see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte   A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer   True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington   Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous   Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle   A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17   Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton   A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson   The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald   We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld   God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford   Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan   Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb   Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare   The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith   A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau   Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13  The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain   Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire   Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde   Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf  Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon  Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater  Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis  If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon  There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb  To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton  We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh  Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater  Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler  A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson,  If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal  I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch  There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon  Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald  A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero   Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron   To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero   Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare   That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles   He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert  Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter   Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne   The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha   Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca   The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa  Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine   The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere   One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams  A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel  While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous  Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran  The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau   There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha   The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln   If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson   You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus  True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington  But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson  True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24530</guid></item></channel></rss>