<?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[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking silly doing the same things over and over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare  How much themselves more precious are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare  How much themselves more precious are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--   The negligence--the apathy--the evils    Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,     Whose delegated cruelty surpasses      The worst acts of one energetic master,       However harsh and hard in his own bearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how you look at it, no matter how many lame arguments Cindy wants to make, my numbers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32615]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how you look at it, no matter how many lame arguments Cindy wants to make, my numbers are bigger and she'll just have to get used to it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18371]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of a cat is filled with mice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;    But with a sweet forgetting,     They stay their crystal fretting,      Never, never petting       About the frozen time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   A humble and a contrite heart.    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet     Lest we forget,--lest we forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2475]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290]]></link><description><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we blame, we give away our power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44277]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we blame, we give away our power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20021]]></link><description><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4398]]></link><description><![CDATA[But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast;  The breath of Heaven must swell the sail,   Or all the toil is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43913</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[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57460]]></link><description><![CDATA[With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124]]></link><description><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds so wild would,     In the days of childhood,      Fling round my cradle       Their magic spells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66888]]></link><description><![CDATA[ext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619</guid></item></channel></rss>