<?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[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28423]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can   Will whyles do mair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand in hand even with the vow   I made to her in marriage, and to decline    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor     To those of mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's none so blind as they that won't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's none so blind as they that won't see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days o' lang syne?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49251]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29918]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29918</guid></item></channel></rss>