<?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[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,    All other parts remaining as they were;     And they, so perfect in their misery,      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,   Which rank corruption destines for their heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working on combinations and communication, which has helped us a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your best foot forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your best foot forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25828]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the lark, the herald of the morn; No nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is raging the laws are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48892]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is raging the laws are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To threaten people and to accuse a country because a newspaper has published some cartoons or some information that could be interpreted as offensive for one group or another is completely inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness  And take fools' pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59614]]></link><description><![CDATA[In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness  And take fools' pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64792]]></link><description><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26816]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will look as hollow as a ghost,   As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,    And so he'll die; and rising so again,     When I shall meet him in the court of heaven      I shall not know him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13298]]></link><description><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13298</guid></item></channel></rss>