<?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[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20728]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all:  All's one to her--above her fan   She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I knock at the Uttermost Gate.    Behind is life and its longing,     Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,      Beyond is the Infinite Morning       Of a day without a tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47973]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575]]></link><description><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32535]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But they didn't really suggest strong support for American policy, which would be very difficult since that's a sure voter loser in Germany.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my lips are sewn with thread so thinpostpoems.com.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you canget with just a kind word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you canget with just a kind word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33674]]></link><description><![CDATA[This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the widest and most diverse selection of nominees possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16540]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842]]></link><description><![CDATA[With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a budding morrow in midnight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a budding morrow in midnight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[deja vu all over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33836]]></link><description><![CDATA[deja vu all over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54949]]></link><description><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618</guid></item></channel></rss>