<?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[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66768]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38681]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the Super Bowl even more important than it has ever been. The Super Bowl is the only thing left that really reaches the mass audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much taking heede is losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up toit, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117</guid></item></channel></rss>