<?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[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a strong girls' team. I think we will be competitive in the WPIAL. We've got a group of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a strong girls' team. I think we will be competitive in the WPIAL. We've got a group of juniors who are very talented. I think they are the strength of the team at this point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike requited,   Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone will do),   That I may call my own;    And close at hand is such a one     In yonder street that fronts the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a variable rate mortgage, now is the time to refinance and lock in a fixed rate to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a variable rate mortgage, now is the time to refinance and lock in a fixed rate to protect yourself in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he. "but every goose can."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,  Waiving what none can understand,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,  Waiving what none can understand,   I make mine hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15680]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I still got paid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40507]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my brother-in-law took this great video I just had to share with the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57963</guid></item></channel></rss>