<?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[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances often are deceiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performed to a T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performed to a T.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46755]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--   There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;    But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,     And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"      And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--       Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, andmediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22717]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, andmediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear a joy to Thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was also involved in the destruction of Kuwait, looting, pillage, killing, torturing, and taking hostages in Kuwait during the invasion of '91,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance,  To rise, a poppy field of France?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47691</guid></item></channel></rss>