<?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[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat   Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe    That all was lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4321]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,   High towering over all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19038]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who injures one man threatens many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who injures one man threatens many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38157]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all spiced or flavored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081]]></link><description><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66902]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the highway on time remains to be seen. The situation will be clearer in a week or two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,   So warm with light his blended colors glow.    . . . .     The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring      Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many ordinary treasures may be denied the man who has God, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't believe what's happening to my baby girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8937]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn door   Stoutly struts his dames before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652</guid></item></channel></rss>