<?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[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the standing toast that pleased me most Was, "The wind that blows, the ship that goes,  And the lass that loves a sailor!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27067]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57595]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36985]]></link><description><![CDATA[This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</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[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters of Horror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters of Horror]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact of the bee   Upon the blossom; in the tree    I am the sap--that shall reveal     The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes      Up from the darkness through its roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearthfor her magnetizes to your home those who love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearthfor her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55581]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never any proper legal team. It was a media hype more than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national championship, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national championship, but if we're going to play for a national championship, we've got to play better than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63953]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65445]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25322</guid></item></channel></rss>