<?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[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." [Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,  Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have neither shame nor gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have neither shame nor gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive drum beat has caught up with the negative one. But on an individual basis, most seniors still can't answer the big question: 'What does it mean for me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48591]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good men prefer to be accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-2 Watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55438]]></link><description><![CDATA[-2 Watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a boost of this magnitude. It has to be Golden Globe-oriented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item></channel></rss>