<?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[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the middle of both countries. I thought it would be a good idea ... And the weather is so nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short but a smile takes barely a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that ultimately India will see reason and come to the negotiating table,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35950]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the issue over Iran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56608]]></link><description><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O!  And, in baboons, our parent race   Was found by old Monboddo.    Their A, B, C, he made them speak,     And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!      Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek       They knew as well's Monboddo!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10794]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24143]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His will is our peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764]]></link><description><![CDATA[In His will is our peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young and old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in remembrance more than things long past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each time she was there   That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .    Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping     In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .      And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day       This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,        This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square         The last time we met was in utter despair          Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18223</guid></item></channel></rss>