<?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[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of such importance is early training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of such importance is early training.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62703]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.  [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt,   Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12953]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were out in the middle of Nebraska, without the sixth-largest shopping center in the country at your doorstep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36385]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were out in the middle of Nebraska, without the sixth-largest shopping center in the country at your doorstep, you would be an incredibly attractive retail market to any tenant in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   What unto themselves was taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is comparable around here. They're interchangeable. They have big guys who can take it outside, they're super quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you aresmarter than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor  Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--   Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9371]]></link><description><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44072</guid></item></channel></rss>