<?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[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark   Break into a thousand gems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less than a lot of the major chains can and they've been able to capitalize on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . .  In those fair fields where sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . .  In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides,   Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the way you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628]]></link><description><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2649]]></link><description><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technically, the recommendation is part of the governor's decision-making process and should remain with the governor until she makes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technically, the recommendation is part of the governor's decision-making process and should remain with the governor until she makes her formal announcement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shape your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of greatness is responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why care for grammar as long as we are good? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why care for grammar as long as we are good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever you go,   May the beautiful palms of Allah grow;    Through days of labor, and nights of rest,     The love of Good Allah make you blest;      So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do,       May the peace of Allah abide with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11744]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  Invite us near thy face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25250</guid></item></channel></rss>