<?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[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to agree with it. But what Senator Frist has had to say is weighty, and I think may bring us all together on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What if my agent was that big? What if my dog was that big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun also shines on the wicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun also shines on the wicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46700]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the will of God, but also that we should do it with love. "He loveth a cheerful giver," and without the heart no obedience is acceptable to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juliet: We've never got friendly. I just wanted to say I hope that can change. I'm nice, I really am, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Juliet: We've never got friendly. I just wanted to say I hope that can change. I'm nice, I really am, apart from my terrible taste in pie. And it would be great if we could be friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born truthful and die liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26133]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born truthful and die liars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44048]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54887]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859</guid></item></channel></rss>