<?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[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41683]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23418]]></link><description><![CDATA[An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast,  A devotee when soars the Host in sight,   An Arab with a stranger for a guest,    A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,     A miser filling his most hoarded chest,      Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping       As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear,  But mice and rats, and such small deer,   Have been Tom's food for seven long year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a bit of a run over the last few minutes of trading. It was a market response to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42106]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a bit of a run over the last few minutes of trading. It was a market response to the announcement of the Russian rescheduling. There was a lot of confusion about those details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is more bearable than nothingness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is more bearable than nothingness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baths, wine and Venus bring decay to our bodies; but baths, wine and Venus make up life. [Lat., Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra;  Sed vitam faciunt baldea, vina, Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item></channel></rss>