<?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 have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths as moved with one desire   Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire,    Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay     With his red stalks upon this sunny day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14956]]></link><description><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all haha hehe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all haha hehe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23520]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are designated as entrances to residence halls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,  But, being moody, give him time and scope,   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,    Confound themselves with working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always push that threat and say, 'Well, we're going to hold you accountable, we're going to tell everybody,' and one out of every 10 times it works out. This time it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the lowest form of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the lowest form of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which He says shall be full, but to have fellowship with Him? He had perfect joy on our account, when He rejoiced in foreknowing and predestinating us; but that joy was not in us, because we did not then exist; it began to be in us, when He called us. And this joy we rightly call our own, this joy wherewith we shall be blessed; which is begun in the faith of them who are born again, and shall be fulfilled in the reward of them who rise again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26229]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17981]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17981</guid></item></channel></rss>