<?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[Have consideration for wounded feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33879]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   Of his majestic reign;    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,   A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell tales out of school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--   The negligence--the apathy--the evils    Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,     Whose delegated cruelty surpasses      The worst acts of one energetic master,       However harsh and hard in his own bearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It helped out a lot that I was in Providence. I got to know some guys, the coaches, and the style of play. That makes it a lot easier than it is for some of the younger guys coming out of college or junior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The serving and passing was good, and our offense ran because of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The serving and passing was good, and our offense ran because of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32441</guid></item></channel></rss>