<?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[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any state can make a difference, but when you look at the arithmetic, ... it's hard to imagine that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any state can make a difference, but when you look at the arithmetic, ... it's hard to imagine that the party that loses Ohio can win the presidency. This is the year in which Ohio is absolutely the key battleground of all the battleground states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Idol Rewind combines all of the characteristics of elite off-network weekend successes, including being a smash hit in primetime, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33673]]></link><description><![CDATA[American Idol Rewind combines all of the characteristics of elite off-network weekend successes, including being a smash hit in primetime, having dual male and female appeal, and enjoying substantial momentum going into syndication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45155]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63837]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in his den. A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from his slumbers. He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse. A Fox seeing him said: A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse. 'Tis not the Mouse I fear, said the Lion; I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding. Little liberties are great offenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;  February eight-and-twenty all alone,   And all the rest have thirty-one:    Unless that leap-year doth combine,     And give to February twenty-nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet -- snow dampens all the sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions,   To reach new spheres of pure activity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18104]]></link><description><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved politicians - even Republicans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47022]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved politicians - even Republicans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier,  About your head shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier,  About your head shall gently houer,   Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,    And with their nimble wings shall fan you     That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,      And like umbrellas, with their feathers       Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5808]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from Kennebec Rental in Fairfield where Bob works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well the busy whisper, circling round,   Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31510]]></link><description><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30555</guid></item></channel></rss>