<?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[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. [Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien. Rien! C'est le vide.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17309]]></link><description><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way than they have the first half of the season. I am surprised they've done this well so soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653]]></link><description><![CDATA[People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23745]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our effort was there, but when you don't shoot the ball well, you're not going to win. Thirty-nine points is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our effort was there, but when you don't shoot the ball well, you're not going to win. Thirty-nine points is not going to win a game against a team that has played in two state tournaments in a row.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, our stomachs Will make what's homely savory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal stripes don't flatter bigger body types. I think that thinner stripes are certainly more flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better reason, to perplex and dash   Maturest counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roastduck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roastduck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52432</guid></item></channel></rss>