<?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[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16537]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35871]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61591]]></link><description><![CDATA["When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday through Thursday so the playing conditions should be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banish night! Welcome light!Love is the brightest star! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banish night! Welcome light!Love is the brightest star!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife,  At morn or noon, by night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife,  At morn or noon, by night or day,   As time conducts him on his way,    How oft doth man, by care oppressed,     Find in an Inn a place of rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is HUGE! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23143]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is HUGE!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your decision will cause him to be one way or anotherin a box.. either a cement one or a pine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your decision will cause him to be one way or anotherin a box.. either a cement one or a pine one (a jailor a coffin).Jonathan Shapiro, Muhammad's attorneyto jurySome websites say that Muhammad was at Ft Lewis, a Muslimlike other Muslims recruited by the US military for a blackops camp in Alabama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a bromide? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a bromide?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189]]></link><description><![CDATA[As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To teach me what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such as could be said   To be the most remote from common use,    In all these he was much and deeply read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item></channel></rss>