<?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[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still will keep   A bower quiet for us, and a sleep    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WE PROVIDED SOME GUIDANCE for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37443]]></link><description><![CDATA[WE PROVIDED SOME GUIDANCE for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our praises are our wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to avoid an arrow shot in one's sight; but hard to escape one aimed in secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</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[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to stabilize the relationship with Fleming, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to stabilize the relationship with Fleming,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16027]]></link><description><![CDATA[O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better for the patents. It's easier when they have a problem to get in to see a doctor more quickly. If there are problems on weekends, there's always somebody around to help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make aliving. The other should teach us how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make aliving. The other should teach us how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart is an innovator and the creation of this special Panel will improve and expand upon the opportunities for Wal-Mart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart is an innovator and the creation of this special Panel will improve and expand upon the opportunities for Wal-Mart associates around the country. I am delighted to have the chance to work with the company on this important effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11153]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50583]]></link><description><![CDATA[But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only the beginning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only the beginning,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must find a way, or we will make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61874]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace combine   To stamp the marriage-bond divine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66010</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></channel></rss>