<?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[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62791]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is a sacred communion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is a sacred communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   Smote with reed by striking shattered,    Face with spittle vilely smeared!     Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,      Marred by fouling stains and homely,       Changed as to its blooming color,        All now turned to deathly pallor,         Making heavenly hosts affeared!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.  [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;   Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20893]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--   Creation's blot, creation's blank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead!  Of the three hundred grant but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead!  Of the three hundred grant but three,   To make a new Thermopylae!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9669]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2063]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you much partial gods!Why gave ye men affections, and not powerTo govern them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrsand honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrsand honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a struggle, there can be no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13680]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all things with love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all things with love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove, not so much with a view to correcting them, as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live according to your income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live according to your income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41356</guid></item></channel></rss>