<?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[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61979]]></link><description><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57194]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are Many things that I would Like to say to you But I Don't know How.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you look out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to credit my teammates. Without them I wouldn't have had any assists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32582]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to credit my teammates. Without them I wouldn't have had any assists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be some volatility to the market, but barring any other major disruptions, I think we'll continue to head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be some volatility to the market, but barring any other major disruptions, I think we'll continue to head lower in prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a real grind and our kids did pretty well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a real grind and our kids did pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives us breath : Such a Truth, as ends all strife : And such a Life as killeth death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength : Such a Light, as shows a feast : Such a Feast, as mends in length : Such a Strength, as makes his guest. Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart : Such a Joy, as none can move : Such a Love, as none can part : Such a Heart, as joyes in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2504]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28616]]></link><description><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14060]]></link><description><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds of a feather will gather together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds of a feather will gather together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody makes his path differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody makes his path differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm trying to push the other guys, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29095]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police catch you, you will be deported.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   Myself--und Gott.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496</guid></item></channel></rss>