<?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[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church of the Reformation to missions during the Reformation period (1517-1650). Having themselves been emancipated from the superstitions and slavery of a false doctrine and a harsh ecclesiastical government, it would be thought most natural that the Reformers and those who followed them should promptly turn their attention to spreading these glad tidings among non-Christian peoples; but here a strange anomaly is found in the fact that there had been hardly any period, in the entire history of the Christian Church, so destitute of any concerted effort to spread the gospel in heathen lands [as] just this period of the Reformation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63822]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61704]]></link><description><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,   Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,    Which she will make when summer comes again--     Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,      Like curious Chinese etchings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings  Of kings makes peasants,   And of peasants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15391]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings  Of kings makes peasants,   And of peasants kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25441]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks  Who know me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks  Who know me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28974]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and the American people are behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reject hatred without hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47188]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At our wittes end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At our wittes end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Mass the matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Mass the matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes;  Though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes;  Though it do well, I do not relish well   Their loud applause and aves vehement,    Nor do I think the man of safe discretion     That does not affect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just broke their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just broke their backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is about never-ending aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11012</guid></item></channel></rss>