<?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[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;   And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.    [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:     Un amour eternel en un moment concu.      La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,       Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it may sound good initially, this has the potential to hurt businesses at a time when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29571]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it may sound good initially, this has the potential to hurt businesses at a time when we should be helping them. If this purchasing pool restricts access to certain retailers or undercuts prices, then the state is meddling in the free-market system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would have been the wish of my aunt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity and treating begin at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity and treating begin at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60066]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. - Inward Ho.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, I would rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, I would rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638]]></link><description><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might,  With magic might, my own sweet love,   Into my little room above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968]]></link><description><![CDATA[We produced a good all-round performance and I suppose the only slight concern was that the top order batsmen could have done better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853]]></link><description><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item></channel></rss>