<?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[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile and sweetly sing.    Smile--though I shall not be near thee;     Sing--though I shall never hear thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the sum of our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the sum of our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19585]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   Its glossy leaves    Ordered by an Intelligence so wise     As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features,  That in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16072]]></link><description><![CDATA[God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features,  That in the waters we may see all Creatures;   Even all that on the earth is to be found,    As if the world were in deep waters drowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not so much with the first team as these tended to be second team matches played on a Friday night, but that did not stop the two sides from going at one another, and I expect that to be the main theme on Saturday evening. We will both have a go at one another within the spirit of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, clear and uncoerced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can let vines grow on top and get shade, or get filtered sunlight without any vines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired of waiting and we're tired, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling in that arena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23162]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue   Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,    And drinks my spirit up!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47534]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big game both sides. We control what we do and need to continue working hard to achieve it. We do know we need to win and take care of business before we do all the figuring. Practice has been excellent and the kids have picked it up and that's what we need to do Friday to compete against a good football team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With emptie hands men may no haukes lure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48817]]></link><description><![CDATA[With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48041]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48041</guid></item></channel></rss>