<?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[Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152</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[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some wee short hour ayont the twal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57907]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood upon the hatches in the storm,   And when the dusky sky began to rob    My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,     I took a costly jewel from my neck,      A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,       And threw it toward thy land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9697]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and its up to me and a half mexican to stop him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the job, we had some good veteran players. Recruiting slipped for a couple of classes, but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the job, we had some good veteran players. Recruiting slipped for a couple of classes, but now we hope we have things going again. We hope to consistently be in the top 10.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25522]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all, fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim did a good job controlling the action from his feet today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stopped the military work to give credibility to the Palestinian Authority, without canceling other options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stopped the military work to give credibility to the Palestinian Authority, without canceling other options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in the last few days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;   She guards them from the steep.    She feeds them on the fragrant height,     And folds them in for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4033</guid></item></channel></rss>