<?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[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that studies his content, wants it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4872]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to these breathless reports and baseless hysteria, some have convinced the American Library Association that under the bipartisan Patriot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38747]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to these breathless reports and baseless hysteria, some have convinced the American Library Association that under the bipartisan Patriot Act, the FBI is not fighting terrorism. Instead agents are checking how far you have gotten on the latest Tom Clancy novel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear   All reflections, foul or fair.    Thou art deep and bright within,     Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;      Thou art very frail as well,       Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46447</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[Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame  That's told but to her mutual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame  That's told but to her mutual breast,   We will not ask her name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37778]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm absolutely sure we're having people check it out that never would have gone to a 'Christian' movie. I went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm absolutely sure we're having people check it out that never would have gone to a 'Christian' movie. I went with 30 of my close friends, and we walked away having these amazing spiritual conversations together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a moderately fast-moving storm and will be out of here pretty much by Saturday, although there might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a moderately fast-moving storm and will be out of here pretty much by Saturday, although there might be some lingering storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332]]></link><description><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus  Tam cari capitis?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They are our competition, ... The day when they're not the competition is when we'll stop talking about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58878]]></link><description><![CDATA[O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health,  When God with these forbidden made choice to rear   His mighty champion, strong above compare,    Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43398]]></link><description><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39341</guid></item></channel></rss>