<?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[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, they're all in the same position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58187]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49545]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32501]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone,  Many guests had Cana;   Gethsemane but one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone,  Many guests had Cana;   Gethsemane but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn't have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was flesh and blood. She ended up being killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48787]]></link><description><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get the ball inside early, and Robbie did a great job. Our other guys also did a great job of getting him the ball in good position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, our baby was coming along. We had no family in America at the time, so every time I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29589]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, our baby was coming along. We had no family in America at the time, so every time I missed a cut or was close to making a cut, I wasn't even thinking about the cut. I was thinking of going back to my wife and taking care of her. As soon as the baby came along, I started doing well again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63904]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I think it's a very, very smart move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43132]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11420]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11420</guid></item></channel></rss>