<?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[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</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[Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55211]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king can do no wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king can do no wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most famous example is probably early on in the Harper government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/960]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14991]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11608]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situations is clear ... they have to change the situation and come back to the level of standard VAT. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situations is clear ... they have to change the situation and come back to the level of standard VAT.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45411]]></link><description><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time's running out right now. If we're going to turn it around, it needs to be real, real quick ? like next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item></channel></rss>