<?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 benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I helped them cut posts, working in knee-deep water to keep the fence up so you wouldn't get run over by the animals,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49412]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4209]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has changed He has grownNo longer bud but Love Fullblown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you should, not what you may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58201]]></link><description><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them learn first to show pity at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them learn first to show pity at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17306]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61602]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the house where there is no chiding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the house where there is no chiding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141</guid></item></channel></rss>