<?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[Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63620]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the East   And to implore your light he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716]]></link><description><![CDATA[His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you. -Julianne Kepley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954]]></link><description><![CDATA[When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44884]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I hear but their low, lone song?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really lack the words to compliment myself today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't look at this as, 'Oh, here is a new group of Hispanics we have to compete over with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39984]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't look at this as, 'Oh, here is a new group of Hispanics we have to compete over with other faiths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,   Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23808</guid></item></channel></rss>