<?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[It's not failure, but low aim is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from contact with the show. If you are somebody who delights in that ephemeral novelty in language, then you realize that people are so impressed with what the show and that it's affected them so much, that at least mildly in their own language practices, they want to be a part of it, and I think that's interesting to see happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus,   Or titillate the palate of Silenus!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63456]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad language or abuse I never, never use,  Whatever the emergency;   Though "Bother it" I may    Occasionally say,     I never never use a big, big D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortunately, with the bases loaded, he was able to hit a home run for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47459]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow;  With one hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62005]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow;  With one hand thrust the lady from,   And with the other pull her home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?  To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--   Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33968]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a little more. A couple of shots here or there. Then maybe if we can make a run, it could have been a little different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majors can't be bothered with that [kind of material].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38060]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38060</guid></item></channel></rss>