<?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[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion,  Is breaking the crystal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion,  Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54358]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they are the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a heart with room for every joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19028]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a heart with room for every joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10193]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn Swann is Western Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12903]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  As one near death to those that wish him live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617]]></link><description><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce him the vile trash to try,   Then lend his name, that other men may buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20646]]></link><description><![CDATA[American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went very athletic, very casual for a number of years. It's inevitable that we'd move through those cycles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went very athletic, very casual for a number of years. It's inevitable that we'd move through those cycles and shift to a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3011]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</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[Say yes to your Universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say yes to your Universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not seeing lots of cases of flu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have all the faith in the world in Steve Wynn, ... But a possible downside is the sky-high expectations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have all the faith in the world in Steve Wynn, ... But a possible downside is the sky-high expectations that the company has to live up to. I'd be interested if the stock pulls back and will watch it closely over the next few quarters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220]]></link><description><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What did he do wrong? . . . Did you break some law, or did you rub some people the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What did he do wrong? . . . Did you break some law, or did you rub some people the wrong way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item></channel></rss>