<?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[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,   And on it put a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the media that won't move on, ... You just want to say, 'Come on, people! Turn a page!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the media that won't move on, ... You just want to say, 'Come on, people! Turn a page!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes?  Does it blow so strong that she must fetch   Her breath in sudden sighs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started making pita when I was 14; now I'm 58.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown and bare,   Over the harvest-fields forsaken,    Silent, and soft, and slow     Descends the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous  To use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous  To use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was going to be close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53992]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time comes he whom God sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14396]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros  Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;   Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe    Absterrent vitiis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184]]></link><description><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506]]></link><description><![CDATA[His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe  As left him not, till penitence had won   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,   Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56476]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item></channel></rss>