<?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[A host in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new standards will provide these growing firms with continued access to SBA's small business development assistance, helping them succeed and serve their customers into the 21st century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful community collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32733]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been,  May sigh to think he still has found   The warmest welcome, at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47528]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18881]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny other man;   If my floures ouver fade or falle,    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle     As many a woman can."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live and Let Die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live and Let Die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item></channel></rss>