<?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[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist  Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can become a leader only if one is supported by an ideology which makes other people tractable and accommodating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume that, because we are Christians, in the full biblical sense, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, automatically we shall be free from the influence of what surrounds us. The Holy Spirit can do what He will, but the Bible does not separate His work from knowledge; nor does the work of the Holy Spirit remove our responsibility as parents, pastors, evangelists, missionaries, or teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229]]></link><description><![CDATA[After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when people boarded those trains. It's another way of telling the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2456]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to pinch, ... We want to make a circle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to pinch, ... We want to make a circle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26230]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you need not read one letter,   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.    For if you knew but what you take,     Though you recover, he must break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite ... and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item></channel></rss>