<?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[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52620]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,  And feeling hearts touch them but lightly--pour   A thousand melodies unheard before!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64456]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837]]></link><description><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato  Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,   E muta nome, perche muta lato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54826]]></link><description><![CDATA[For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64320]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain,  And resembles sorrow only   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54623]]></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/54623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51046]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady livin' in the land   As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We didn't really play 40 minutes of basketball. The key (to playing a transition game) was the defensive intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item></channel></rss>