<?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'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand  As is a man were author of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand  As is a man were author of himself   And knew no other kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Her inertia did not sit well with some in her immediate circle. They accused Ms. Apple of being lazy, crazy and unproductive, she said.] It really hurt a couple of close relationships of mine, ... It infuriated me because they couldn't believe that when I'm sitting and thinking that's how I work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47264]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By hesitation the opportunity is often lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51587]]></link><description><![CDATA[By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63324]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy very beams will dry those vapors up,   For every cloud engenders not a storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait.  God laid His fingers on the ivories   Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,    And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3008</guid></item></channel></rss>