<?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[What a case am I in. -As You Like It. Epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55698]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a case am I in. -As You Like It. Epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're going to try to make a positive out of it, ... We will have a professional working relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, the infinite I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35809]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498]]></link><description><![CDATA[True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44936]]></link><description><![CDATA[For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,   Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,    I have no relish of them, but abound     In the division of each several crime,      Acting in many ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside. I saw the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was made for slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was made for slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43693]]></link><description><![CDATA[When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item></channel></rss>