<?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[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42736]]></link><description><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13217]]></link><description><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49694]]></link><description><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49858]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49858</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[Every person is lined with love! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is lined with love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,   No winter in thy year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[did not have his own sources of funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33141]]></link><description><![CDATA[did not have his own sources of funding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,   When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</guid></item></channel></rss>