<?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[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we void it up again   With poisonous spite and envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expenditure rises to meet income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain:  They who have nothing have little to fear,   Nothing to lose or to gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/247]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;   In those freckles live their savors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming men are haunted men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10911]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,  That dare as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56552]]></link><description><![CDATA[God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,  That dare as well answer a man indeed   As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.    Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one and the other, a sea;--   Ah, never can fall from the days that have been    A gleam on the years that shall be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens if a hacker in the U.K. breaks into a system in South Africa, or in the U.S.? ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens if a hacker in the U.K. breaks into a system in South Africa, or in the U.S.? ... Where did the crime happen? And who has jurisdiction? The police must cooperate across borders, and, frankly, the police are not very good at that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect baseness in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew that I was in my [adopted] hometown but it would be a tough fight. I'm just guided by faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36388</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[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item></channel></rss>