<?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[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  To put it shortly, the Church forgets that Christianity is not an attitude of mind, but a type of life: a man's spirit is not known by his opinion, but by his action and general conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/278]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going to determine that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I cannot speculate about it because we don't know why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55629]]></link><description><![CDATA[My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause — you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64640]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was a Harrods bag'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34389]]></link><description><![CDATA[She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;  The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,   Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like it's coming straight for us in Dominica. We're going to start preparing the hotel tomorrow by boarding up the windows and collecting food and water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33166</guid></item></channel></rss>