<?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[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43753]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply don't want residents and tourists to see the Royal Mile in this kind of shape,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31953]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're always a rough and tumble, blue-collar team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,   Man, take thine old cloake about thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is wasted on the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing  On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow,   Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is the mother of all virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told,   In groves of oak or fanes of gold,    Still floats upon the morning wind,     Still whispers to the willing mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. . -David Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. - To Neil Armstrong after he landed successfully on the Moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086]]></link><description><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,   Knows the high art of what and how to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44491]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44491</guid></item></channel></rss>