<?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[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59600]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mocking the air with colours idly spread. -King John. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,   Opened in airs of June her multiple    OF golden chalices to humming birds     And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51630]]></link><description><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh to that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19404]]></link><description><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let this go unanswered would have, in the minds of many, confirmed their worst suspicions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just because of imagination about (Iran's) intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on without   Good morrow to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66839]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61089]]></link><description><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,   May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,    Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;     Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,      No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,       Will dare to soil her virgin purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray the principles of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or the right not to be blown up on the way to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25474]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like a canopy which love has spread    To curtain her sleeping world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913</guid></item></channel></rss>