<?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[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got tired of playing other people's songs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got tired of playing other people's songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?  Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,   And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63456]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're blessed if you have the strength to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are those who are willing todiscipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, theirefficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they takeinto their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing interms of championship living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11818]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole;  Drink-hael! in Jesu's name,   And fill the tawny bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And in the violet-embroidered vale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is better for the environment than the standard diesel we're using. And the second thing to consider is the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. -John V. Cheney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  It is quite possible to perform very ordinary actions with so high an intention as to serve God therein better than in far more important things done with a less pure intention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet who shall shut out Fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special session, they're going to be down on the Capitol steps telling us to get out of there!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're toting that flag for right now. We just want to come in and do what we have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're toting that flag for right now. We just want to come in and do what we have to do as a team, and hopefully come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13800</guid></item></channel></rss>