<?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[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51473]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sit within a helmless bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue--   Emblem of friends and lovers true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm watching film and I'm running with my chest up, my head back. ... That's not how you run and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40541]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm watching film and I'm running with my chest up, my head back. ... That's not how you run and catch somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19462]]></link><description><![CDATA[True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935]]></link><description><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was hard to come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52194</guid></item></channel></rss>