<?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 who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps vivre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,   The title is affeered!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts  Of kindness and of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23766]]></link><description><![CDATA[On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts  Of kindness and of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that's another story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that's another story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause waits on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause waits on success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37732]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42002]]></link><description><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Past and to come seems best; things present worst. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Past and to come seems best; things present worst. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,   But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!    Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--     All mock him outright, by day:      But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,       The boldest will shrink away!        O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,         Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice is still for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61123]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice is still for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44155]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love because it's the only true adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear that the Fed will continue well into 2006 has been dramatically reduced, and that's why equities look so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear that the Fed will continue well into 2006 has been dramatically reduced, and that's why equities look so good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is love in plain clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1073</guid></item></channel></rss>