<?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[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun with light umbertouches vined cucumberThe more he ticklesthe more there are pickles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55914]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to figure things out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46744]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to stay with the same routine, and hopefully not get caught up in all that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19509]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51413]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt   But being seasoned with a gracious voice,    Obscures the show of evil? In religion,     What damned error but some sober brow      Will bless it and approve it with a text,       Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1926]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little like being in a hit-and-run accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41630</guid></item></channel></rss>