<?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[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their stock to keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27316]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we're in it together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,--   Hurrah for the next that dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24941]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see them not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see them not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I think it's a very, very smart move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a tryout or anything. I'd played against a lot of the guys at the Combine, so we all kind of had a mutual respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a mad world, only the mad are sane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,    All other parts remaining as they were;     And they, so perfect in their misery,      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63143]]></link><description><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is preferable to error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is preferable to error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11833</guid></item></channel></rss>