<?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 think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13644]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not donut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not donut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60216]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks;  And when she winds them round a young man's neck,   She will not ever set him free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52788]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910]]></link><description><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow   Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,    And knew them how to order without blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5826]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis  Que les imitateurs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not for mortals always to be blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183]]></link><description><![CDATA[A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54399]]></link><description><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3996]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... Let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53582]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42934</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[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, where we are least alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, where we are least alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26085]]></link><description><![CDATA[On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,  Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam   That through his lattice peeped derisively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1726]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards. The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape. Look before you leap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1536</guid></item></channel></rss>