<?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[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;    Although his anatomical construction     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,      Your laboring people think beyond all question,       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends make the bad times good, and the good times unforgettable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends make the bad times good, and the good times unforgettable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satanic school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Satanic school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All glory comes from daring to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3977]]></link><description><![CDATA[All glory comes from daring to begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to abandon as there has been no significant improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37071]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to abandon as there has been no significant improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is empowering, ... It feels good to be able to manhandle someone across the line. I've worked hard at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is empowering, ... It feels good to be able to manhandle someone across the line. I've worked hard at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38074]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be fine when I got to practice on Monday. By the time I got to practice, the players had already started running practice and I knew that they were serious about getting right back to work and were committed to bouncing back and playing to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If one could talk absolutely humanly about Christ, one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If one could talk absolutely humanly about Christ, one would have to say that the words: "my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" are impatient and untrue. They can only be true if God says them, and consequently also when the God-Man says them. And indeed since it is true, it is the very limit of suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;  But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',   They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;  The wail still is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60382]]></link><description><![CDATA["Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;  The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare   Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew)   Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret forthe things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38844]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. The trick is to find the brands that are unique, but not so niche and so in-the-know that only 12 people who live in the neighborhood will get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51389</guid></item></channel></rss>