<?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[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18441]]></link><description><![CDATA[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms   And the sky is held in the water.    What is water,     That pours silver,      And can hold the sky?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12496]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation?  Have equal power to adjourn,   Appoint appearance and return?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear change, embrace it. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;   Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;    I'll wind thee up no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative.  So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the rain it raineth every day. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20409]]></link><description><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707]]></link><description><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14811</guid></item></channel></rss>