<?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[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48741]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's someone in my head but it's not me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even with one of the best teams in the state for 16 minutes. But (Arlington) is just relentless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even with one of the best teams in the state for 16 minutes. But (Arlington) is just relentless on the glass and just slaughtered us on the boards. That's when the wheels started coming off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;  A precious jewel carved most curiously;   It is a little picture painted well.    What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell     From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;      A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!       Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5190]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63914]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19381]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6525]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43727]]></link><description><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11682]]></link><description><![CDATA["I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway;  "I walked with the beggar along the road,   I kissed the bondsman stung by the goad,    I bore my half of the porter's load.     And what did you do," my Lord will say,      "As you traveled along the King's highway?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66760]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my religion - I could die for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55883]]></link><description><![CDATA[An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any significant change in our posture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,  And I--at any God's for thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,  And I--at any God's for thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62791</guid></item></channel></rss>