<?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[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64110]]></link><description><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,   For this effect defective comes by cause.    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397   To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way people make decisions about cell phones is still about cheap minutes, good coverage at home and a free handset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   The world has nothing to bestow,    From our own selves our bliss must flow,     And that dear hut,--our home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm representing these guys. I'm doing the best job I can because these guys were the best, and they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm representing these guys. I'm doing the best job I can because these guys were the best, and they are from my hometown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19606]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17306]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37760]]></link><description><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. We weren't aggressive enough, and we didn't take enough shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208</guid></item></channel></rss>