<?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[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633]]></link><description><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This act calls for parental notification to one parent before a minor obtains an abortion, but New Hampshire law also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39781]]></link><description><![CDATA[This act calls for parental notification to one parent before a minor obtains an abortion, but New Hampshire law also contains exceptions and provides adequate safeguards to protect any minor facing emergent health risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because I am a nice guy, it doesn't mean I am not sexy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright   The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news, madam, Are swallow-winged, but what's good  Walks on crutches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66660</guid></item></channel></rss>