<?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[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a tear,    Seeing more harmony     In her bright eye,      Than now you hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,  Is that congealing pang which seizes   The trusting bosom, when betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as potential trading partners, recognizing their humanity, independence, and individuality, and the harmony between their interests and ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49269]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments when you have to just walk away and cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12384]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments when you have to just walk away and cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40076]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived  The mother of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By words the mind is winged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4711]]></link><description><![CDATA[By words the mind is winged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52948]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15909]]></link><description><![CDATA[More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26988</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[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9330]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she must fetch   Her breath in sudden sighs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59511</guid></item></channel></rss>