<?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[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]   - credited to Sophie Arnould,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,   And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or are working on everybody else's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an action, reap a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66272]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers and provender hinder no journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayers and provender hinder no journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51644]]></link><description><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5837]]></link><description><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49376]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have faith,accept it and let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16457]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,  Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,   Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the dull catalogue of common things.   Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50346</guid></item></channel></rss>