<?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[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like Hazel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like Hazel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich'sbutt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence.It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich'sbutt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence.It turns out he only took up residence in 95.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do feel this is a reactionary act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money wants no followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money wants no followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they have everything they need from a security perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough is as good as a feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. He has quickly turned that around and really has played some great lacrosse in recent weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55742</guid></item></channel></rss>