<?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[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61441]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we discourse   The freezing hours away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover. You are the bloom, thebee, the OerHoverer. You are the child, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43180]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the nectar, the hummingbird, the clover. You are the bloom, thebee, the OerHoverer. You are the child, the bond and the mother. Youare the Love, the Beloved, the Lover.(to our mother).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is what we all have in common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298]]></link><description><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother   By yielding up thy body to my will,    Or else he must not only die the death,     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out      To ling'ring sufferance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have two shoe boxes full of stuff. And that doesn't include half of what I have received. I threw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have two shoe boxes full of stuff. And that doesn't include half of what I have received. I threw a lot of stuff away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. [Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,  Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,   Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27961]]></link><description><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have six seniors that just play off each other as one. We don't have one key guy. We're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have six seniors that just play off each other as one. We don't have one key guy. We're going to have to play some defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,   Half teasing and half tender, to repeat    Her song of "May."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item></channel></rss>