<?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 alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59411]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18261]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes  Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,  Never dreamed, though right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10275]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,  Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,   Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,    Sleep to wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17671]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., Cautus enim metuit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque  Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25101]]></link><description><![CDATA[To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is often found near the nettle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175]]></link><description><![CDATA[A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are twice armed if we fight with faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15026]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are twice armed if we fight with faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item></channel></rss>