<?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[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don'tknow anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don'tknow anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We immediately conducted an in-depth review and our employees have also been correcting the situation on an individual basis. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31179]]></link><description><![CDATA[We immediately conducted an in-depth review and our employees have also been correcting the situation on an individual basis. The review is now complete and refunds have been initiated for the remaining accounts affected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather is crazy. I kind of like snow, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27584]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our shots were going in from the outside. Any shot we were throwing up, it just wasn't going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27021]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42510]]></link><description><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854]]></link><description><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she winds them round a young man's neck,   She will not ever set him free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applaud friends, the comedy is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49411]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40646]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was nothing more than the con working the kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36296]]></link><description><![CDATA[These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've proposed is the result of many months of work and feedback from hundreds of people in San Diego ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've proposed is the result of many months of work and feedback from hundreds of people in San Diego County.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,   As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</guid></item></channel></rss>