<?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[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20917]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard  But I will delve one yard below their mines   And blow them at the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe and one alone.   [Ger., Wir haben nur einen einzigen Hass,    Wir lieben vereint, wir hassen vereint,     Wir haben nur einen einzigen Feind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto them -- gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7106]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sometimes marvelously raiseth the souls of his saints with some close and near approaches unto them -- gives them a sense of His eternal love, a taste of the embraces of His Son and the inhabitation of the Spirit, without the least intervening disturbance; and then this is their assurance. But this life is not a season to be always taking wages in; our work is not yet done; we are not always to abide in this mount; we must down again into the battle -- fight again, cry again, complain again. Shall the soul be thought now to have lost its assurance? Not at all. It had before assurance with joy, triumph, and exultation; it hath it now, or may have, with wrestling, cries, tears, and supplications. And a man's assurance may be as good, as true, when he lies on the earth with a sense of sin, as when he is carried up to the third heaven with a sense of love and foretaste of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50995]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been very disappointed in the last couple of years, no question about that. But we were determined that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been very disappointed in the last couple of years, no question about that. But we were determined that we would recruit and turn it back around, and we look forward to the next couple of seasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25960]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, youwill be around long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, youwill be around long enough to eat a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that endures is not overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's face all unthankful graves   An arrowed scratch as with a tool of steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--   Still with his dulness was he cursed--    Dull--beyond all conception--dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56562]]></link><description><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in the last few days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral  Shining unto no other end   Than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral  Shining unto no other end   Than to presage the grass's fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49977</guid></item></channel></rss>