<?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[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows that the institutions are working,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,  A most delicious banquet by his bed,   And brave attendants near him when he wakes,    Would not the beggar then forget himself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than all measures Of delightful sound,  Better than all treasures   That in books are found,    Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered on the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered on the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From those who spoke her praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked to play a tough, physical game and the officials let us play that way tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form,  The lustre of the eye?   Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?    Yes; but not this alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was co-ed. They didn't have enough kids otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was co-ed. They didn't have enough kids otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923]]></link><description><![CDATA[taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33840]]></link><description><![CDATA[As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, [the trains] will benefit from a refurbishment over the next 12 months to increase the number of seats and provide a more comfortable environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48787]]></link><description><![CDATA[With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22488]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends were poor but honest. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55718]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends were poor but honest. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item></channel></rss>