<?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[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,  It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60918]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,  It ravishes all senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet that demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16414]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pleasures For A Super Mind. It Is The Greatest Source Of Knowledge To Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54410]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples spread!   The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime:  When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,   Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851]]></link><description><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10966]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an idea which we will present to the Israeli side. We hope to reach an acceptable solution for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an idea which we will present to the Israeli side. We hope to reach an acceptable solution for us and them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all you do is say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24377]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all you do is say what the shit does, and add "er". I wanna work for the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute. Hey, what does that do? It keeps shit fresh. Well, that's a fresher....I'm going on break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43090]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is feeling a tremendous amount of disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32786]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is feeling a tremendous amount of disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because it's there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because it's there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15635]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64424]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,   By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,    By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,     By the green leaves, opening as I pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down', ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many (companies) in fact believe that (employees) are less effective in their jobs when 'dressed down',]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they had that one big inning. We are still playing well right now; we should be happy to be 9-2. We beat these guys two out of three and now we need to look ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun    Closing his benediction,     Sinks, and the darkening air      Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--       Night with train of stars        And her great gift of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item></channel></rss>