<?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[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48452]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoners make the best cryptologists, I know because i've written some kickass shit and the next day there was no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoners make the best cryptologists, I know because i've written some kickass shit and the next day there was no way could I figure out what the hell I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51690]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,   That sings so delicately clear, and make    Conjecture of the plumage and the form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11893]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is, is in its causes just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30711]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in visits   Like those of angels, short and far between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21299]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53109]]></link><description><![CDATA[For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25951]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,   And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61687</guid></item></channel></rss>