<?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[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How he in peace is wounded, not in war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain,  Nor force of reason, can persuade,   Then let example be obey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't believe how crowded the gym was that night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the way of crop losses, thereÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, we missed the most significant damage,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481]]></link><description><![CDATA[For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. [Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is angry at a feast is rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a verb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a verb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11721]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34938]]></link><description><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am not desperate, I am worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18628</guid></item></channel></rss>