<?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[Better is to bow than breake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is to bow than breake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ivy; bold to leap a height   'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves    As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too     (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the heart of an angry crowd, their enthusiasm soured suddenly into a growling muttering. He applied it confidently to a man who, under the inspiration of His friendship, had broken with his sorry past and his old selfish, unclean ways, and was doing what he could to put things right. Now that, He said, is what I call a saved man. Very solemnly He tells us that on the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked the questions we are expecting, but others that will puzzle and startle us. Those folk on the left hand were, as far as we hear, respectable folk; their business books were straight, their home life was kindly, they themselves were clean-living men and women: nothing whatever is laid to their charge excepting this, that they lived in a world needing their help and were too absorbed in something -- what it was, we are not told; it may have been their souls -- to give what aid they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is one short letter of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one short letter of danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                                                                                         want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/994]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by her sideBoth the broads are blind as bats, stumblin through - the systemJustice bumped into M'Tulu, trippin on Geronimo Prattbut stepped right over Oliver and his crooked partner RonnieJustice stubbed her big toe on MandelaAnd Liberty was misquoted by the IndiansSlavery was just a learning phase, forgotten without a verdictwhile Justice is on a rampagefor endangered survivin black malesI mean really; if anyone REALLY valued lifeand cared about the massesThey'd take 'em both to Pen Opticaland get TWO pairs of glassesExcuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesI'm kickin asses up and down New York CityIt's a pityBrothers wanna be grimy and gritty to each otherWhat would your mother think, smotherin your brother?I see you sink, into another levelDancin with the devilTurn up the bass, cause I'm player; also a rhyme sayerKind of fly, layer after layerWhy.. cause I'm blessedCause I've progressedI've learned my lessonsClass has always been in session, so you better take notesAnd stop chokin on negativity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/123]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a result tomorrow night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.  Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though I speak without a tongue.    Nought but one thing can confound me,     Many voices joining round me,      Then I fret, and rave, and gabble,       Like the labourers of Babel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14067]]></link><description><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this, even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus, have nothing, I suppose, to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,  For the apparel oft proclaims the man,   And they in France of the best rank and station    Are of a most select and generous chief in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are made; each zone   Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things truly wicked start from innocence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63429</guid></item></channel></rss>