<?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[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have excellent shooters and had good rotation, but sometimes that just happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34278]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. -John V. Cheney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane Heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We play with our helmets and you see it on the scoreboard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39139]]></link><description><![CDATA[We play with our helmets and you see it on the scoreboard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think too many people found that by waiting, maybe the prime locations they wanted were harder to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12264]]></link><description><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27235]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27235</guid></item></channel></rss>