<?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[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544]]></link><description><![CDATA[That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27562]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759]]></link><description><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35446]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply with the ordinance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64769]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505]]></link><description><![CDATA[...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26505</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[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly--  One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it\'s a dichotomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12983]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was huge. He was ridiculously important [to the team]. This guy went out and all of a sudden he jumps in and he expected to work into the seventh every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914</guid></item></channel></rss>