<?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[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free throws, free throws. We missed some key free throws and we've been good with free throws. I think today we just couldn't get them in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51122]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. Somebody's responsible for that. This is nine years now of a man's life lost by no fault of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel we would not have a prayer's chance in hell in the Hernando County Jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next week is characterized by very low liquidity in Brazilian financial markets, and no major economic data are released. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next week is characterized by very low liquidity in Brazilian financial markets, and no major economic data are released.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431]]></link><description><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. There are reckless drivers at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the king found was that not all agencies were in line with his program, ... One arm was working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40147]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the king found was that not all agencies were in line with his program, ... One arm was working against the other. People were confused. The king decided to bring in a team that was reformist and worked in tandem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3258]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item></channel></rss>