<?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[Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55578]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;  She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,   Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023]]></link><description><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under suspension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates a man from his fellow men. It may fill him with a self-righteousness which rejoices in its own superiority to those who have had no like experience. It may move a man to a Pharisaic self-isolation. There have in fact been not a few so-called conversions as a result of which a man has left the Church to belong to some smaller and holier body. The plain truth is that such a one should very seriously examine himself, if he finds what he regards as his Christian experience separating him from his fellow-men, or his fellow-Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811]]></link><description><![CDATA[It offers the clinic the opportunity to serve more children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is a madness put to good use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is a madness put to good use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consequently, the cost per channel can be significantly reduced by using the eight-channel device. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consequently, the cost per channel can be significantly reduced by using the eight-channel device.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king already   Hath married the fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're taking action to protect the city up to 52 feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're taking action to protect the city up to 52 feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can take control of that position if he would choose to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item></channel></rss>