<?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[Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   To hang or wed: both hath one hour;    And whether it be, I am well sure,     Hanging is better of the twain;      Sooner done, and shorter pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer, And sent me away with a Flea in my ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer, And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can play with anybody in the country. If you want to grind it out, we can grind it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can play with anybody in the country. If you want to grind it out, we can grind it out. If you want to play fast, we can get up and down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all those fine lines. It's just looking for any edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33580]]></link><description><![CDATA[These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. However, if the price remains high or goes higher, then we may have to drop a home-and-home series with someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50154]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating, and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a women and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called "falling in love" occurred in a sexless world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you need not read one letter,   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.    For if you knew but what you take,     Though you recover, he must break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,  While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the 10th round we could have half the season's work done. If we can finish the week well we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37404]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the 10th round we could have half the season's work done. If we can finish the week well we can be in a great situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item></channel></rss>