<?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[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22166]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell themBenjamin Franklin said it first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues of ancient promise there imprest;   Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64694]]></link><description><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in a few days. I thank God for the doctor at the clinic in Joes. They drew her blood and said, 'You have 48 hours to get her to Children's (Hospital).' I was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can see it before then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe the game is a little bit quicker and guys don't have as much energy. They hear that whistle and maybe everyone is just happy to get off the ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry unequally is to suffer equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21897]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59697</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[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9617]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training session, so we'll wait until we see how our blokes pull up tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301</guid></item></channel></rss>