<?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[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49086]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is good news for taxpayers and the states. We hope the Supreme Court will bring some clarity to this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31700]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is good news for taxpayers and the states. We hope the Supreme Court will bring some clarity to this area of the law and affirm the principle that states are free to develop their own business climates, so long as they do not discriminate against out-of-state taxpayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average person thinks he isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average person thinks he isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65393]]></link><description><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33345]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed in the first semester or the third quarter of 2006 at the latest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34171]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle  That's curded by the frost from purest snow   And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain,  But the first joys of our heart   Come never back again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37621]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. 18, that was the best hole I played all weekend. I had a good two-putter on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36899]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent. What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40473]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item></channel></rss>