<?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[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50483]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61209]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie   In veneration and the people's love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,  Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[putting it to a funk beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35317]]></link><description><![CDATA[putting it to a funk beat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would attain to the divine perfection.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would attain to the divine perfection....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It reminds me of PIO, or pilot induced oscillation, a lag in the plane's response to a pilot moving the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It reminds me of PIO, or pilot induced oscillation, a lag in the plane's response to a pilot moving the stick, ... You push the stick down and the plane doesn't go down right away, so you push it down more, and then it really starts to fall. The same thing happens in monetary policy if you have gradualism in interest rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first years of man must make provision for the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money begets money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money begets money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no business living through that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no business living through that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!  So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,   We start, for soul is wanting there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19490</guid></item></channel></rss>