<?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[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38160]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that is truly worthy of debate. It's a call to action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interdependency follows independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,   And eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth laughs in flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth laughs in flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be served must bee patient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49407]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be served must bee patient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24227]]></link><description><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen   Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,    To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood     And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade      Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze       That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm        To thy sick heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he means and mean what he says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've ... always thought he could be a big comedy star. The nice thing about 'Virgin' is that it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've ... always thought he could be a big comedy star. The nice thing about 'Virgin' is that it shows the studios that if the premise is a strong one, you can take a chance on a new actor in the lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (the funds) can be used for one piece of art or for artwork throughout the 11 acres, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (the funds) can be used for one piece of art or for artwork throughout the 11 acres,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11515]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55110</guid></item></channel></rss>