<?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 takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave   Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:     Where human folly sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  When everything we receive from him is received and prized as fruit and pledge of his covenant love, then his bounties, instead of being set up as rivals and idols to draw our heart from him, awaken us to fresh exercises of gratitude and furnish us with fresh motives of cheerful obedience every hour.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance!  Hope of France!   Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!    Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,  Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis   Post mortem ducibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12612]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name   Fly mothlike over baby's bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot afford to waste my time making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food,  Nothing to wear out but clothes,   To keep one from going nude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is I; Science is we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    With powerful objectives,     Watch your play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57284]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50526]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50526</guid></item></channel></rss>