<?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[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the land. The land is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36366]]></link><description><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look  With an aspect more favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look  With an aspect more favorable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is,   But no good girl's lip out of Paris.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. And you had to succeed no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61622]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8952]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comics continue to have a pretty bad [reputation]. They're often lumped in with TV and video games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comics continue to have a pretty bad [reputation]. They're often lumped in with TV and video games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,   It has no great significance, it loses half its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821</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[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720]]></link><description><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56562]]></link><description><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought he had a chance to score. But DePew made a play that no coach can teach. He did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought he had a chance to score. But DePew made a play that no coach can teach. He did it strictly on instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63195</guid></item></channel></rss>