<?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[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest."   And I make answer: "I am satisfied;    I dare not ask; I know not what is best;     God hath already said what shall betide."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,   He form'd this gnat who built the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22644]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34611]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57246]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From the desolate shores of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16324</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[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of Florida, most Hispanic and Latino voters throughout the country are Democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42442]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of Florida, most Hispanic and Latino voters throughout the country are Democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534]]></link><description><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really trust a sane person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65771]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19614]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are going to have to do whatever it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, theTraveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat underthe Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one,and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, aviolent dispute arose between them as to which of them had theright to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let theAss only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had,with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrelproceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Assgalloped off. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our power is in our ability to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot market, so it was easy for them to step in in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181</guid></item></channel></rss>