<?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[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still remain,   Than thus remember thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, and low,    The full notes closer grow;     Hard, what a torrent gush!      They pour, they overflow--       Sing on, sing on, O thrush!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53177]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little problematic for us, because we are not a used to playing together. There were some good phases, and for me the test was satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus: would she were the friend of my wife!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803]]></link><description><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19393]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you. -Twelfth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55754]]></link><description><![CDATA[An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense won the game for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50431]]></link><description><![CDATA[An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady livin' in the land   As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I cannot speculate about it because we don't know why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,  For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm steering away from (heavy marketing of) Felix because of the pressure on him, and because his head may get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm steering away from (heavy marketing of) Felix because of the pressure on him, and because his head may get too big. He's got that gleam in his eye. As he matures, he's going to be a handful. He'll push the envelope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15021</guid></item></channel></rss>