<?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[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it isregret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54907]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day at least in every week, The sects of every kind  Their doctrines here are sure to seek,   And just as sure to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as I'm not a huge fan of the band Kiss, I totally appreciate what they did in creating a show. They wrote these simple, pretty crappy rock songs, but they created this huge image and this huge show. It was like this iconic thing, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that we've always really appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17922]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats and monkeys -- monkeys and cats -- all human life is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135]]></link><description><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see themselves as the center of the universe and judgeeverything as it relates to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21178]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see themselves as the center of the universe and judgeeverything as it relates to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market's saunter into 2006 continues, with just a few remaining events before the champagne and confetti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market's saunter into 2006 continues, with just a few remaining events before the champagne and confetti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32941</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[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand   A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name     Mother of exiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13622]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16774]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't permitted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48419</guid></item></channel></rss>