<?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 remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10969]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to sell to tenants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28523]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single person who receives (this type of treatment) develops ... this inflammation in the lower rectal area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single person who receives (this type of treatment) develops ... this inflammation in the lower rectal area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64195]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51968]]></link><description><![CDATA[For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25178]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7178]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it together. So if you're Apple and you're going to go through the trouble of putting it together, you might as well pick an area you want to stay in, as opposed to one further away where you might save money but it will be just as difficult to assemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was able to put away my opportunities and that is something I am happy about, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was able to put away my opportunities and that is something I am happy about,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item></channel></rss>