<?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[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we arebeing educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62665]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole   A gentle tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54429]]></link><description><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--    "What glory then for me     In such a company?--      Roses plenty, roses plenty       And one nightingale for twenty?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699]]></link><description><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27215]]></link><description><![CDATA[You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the sinews of love, as of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384]]></link><description><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who — as we all know — before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248</guid></item></channel></rss>