<?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[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -Dennis Fakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   Nor care beyond to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are more complex, and it's made communications around money more complex. There are more bad emotions around money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are more complex, and it's made communications around money more complex. There are more bad emotions around money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam--  Where France set up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5144]]></link><description><![CDATA[And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, when pennons swam--  Where France set up his lilied shield,   His oriflamb,    And Henry's lion-standard rolled:     What was it to their matchless sheen,      Their million million drops of gold       Among the green!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,   and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death during vigorous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31786]]></link><description><![CDATA[In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death during vigorous exertion was approximately 19 times higher in men than in women. On the other hand, women who exercised four or more hours per week reduced their risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise by about sixty percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35328]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang for your buck doing a fixed-rate mortgage than doing an adjustable-rate mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item></channel></rss>