<?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[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1916]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's on every page of the script, so the actress had to be strong and incredible. She displayed such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33993]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's on every page of the script, so the actress had to be strong and incredible. She displayed such a depth of understanding about the character that I knew we had the right kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63633]]></link><description><![CDATA[here is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16911]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me;  Thy Smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me;  Thy Smiles I count not, nor thy frowns I fear,   My days are past, my head lies quiet here.    What faults you saw in me take Care to shun,     Look but at home, enough is to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations   . . . .    The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,     From doing town or country hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as we can determine from our records, these are the first allegations of sexual abuse against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a good house all is quickly ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49529]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a good house all is quickly ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a fantastic job. It was a really good win. We executed and did a lot of good things. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a fantastic job. It was a really good win. We executed and did a lot of good things. Cloverleaf did well early, but then we did what we needed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10930]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42674]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to think of the value of the iron ore business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,  Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,   Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its tunes amongst the leaves?    Oh, is it from the waters,     Or from the long, tall grass?      Or is it from the hollow rocks       Through which its breathings pass?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame it on a simple twist of fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item></channel></rss>