<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City Council was that new streets be named after past presidents and possibly after the people that you talked about. We do not want to name existing streets because we are worried about what the cost would be to our neighbors who live on that street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice, but I don't have much energy. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and get a good skate in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade,  My Castara lives unknown   To no looser eye betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't duplicate was the speed he's got over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forget, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3351]]></link><description><![CDATA[A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a new network. It's a merged network. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30406]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a new network. It's a merged network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850]]></link><description><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21685]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up big early and kept fighting them off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and leave it alone. We're excited to be in the playoffs and to be playing at home in the playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32188</guid></item></channel></rss>