<?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[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54104]]></link><description><![CDATA[In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who compromise life on behalf of souls, for which Christ died. Whenever, by exertion in any unselfish cause, health is broken or fortune impaired, or influential friends estranged, the follower of Christ is called an enthusiast, a fanatic, or even more plainly a man of unsound mind. He may be comforted by remembering that Jesus was said to be beside Himself when teaching and healing left Him not leisure even to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men - and keeps on doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gaine teacheth how to spend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the country when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the country when it comes to addressing the needs of at-risk and homeless citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4729]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just missed being out there with all my friends and having fun playing on Friday nights. I kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just missed being out there with all my friends and having fun playing on Friday nights. I kind of felt bad for the guys when they lost. I kind of felt like I should be out there helping them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,    Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15216]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37909</guid></item></channel></rss>