<?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[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, Wi' a' the honours three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58274]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,   By paved fountain or by rushy brook,    Or in the beached margent of the sea,     To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,      But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12658]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be,  Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,   And curs of low degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62381]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight,  Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert Hall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52705]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52705</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[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35615]]></link><description><![CDATA[They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12831]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which has arisen recently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use.  Oh, the price were high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use.  Oh, the price were high   That those shoes would buy,    Those little blue unused shoes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31088]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28947]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to make concessions.] I do not think it is fatal, ... but he is going to have to take some drastic action to realize that politics is the art of compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997]]></link><description><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item></channel></rss>