<?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[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,   They do not point on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   She I love is far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gillman's did the business for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I know what love is, it is because of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I know what love is, it is because of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crier of green sauce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10141]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crier of green sauce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63512]]></link><description><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26749]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will see no better deal this week or next year. We believe our proposal to be fair and balanced and there is very narrow room for negotiation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way through the night. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. If I could do this all over again and have this wonderful child, I would. She's a miracle from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy main;--   Miserere Domine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454</guid></item></channel></rss>