<?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[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What if my agent was that big? What if my dog was that big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, under the current administration, that it is 'policy first, science second.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ecce quod expendi habui, quod donavi habeo, quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man   Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms   For bread, but have some space to think and feel    Like moral and immortal creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like work even when someone else does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a catastrophic failure,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. It's up to the administration to give him the resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than in the professional setting. We believe consumers should be assured that the products they are using are the most effective available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a constant effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a constant effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16510]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51286</guid></item></channel></rss>