<?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[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the summer cost increases. Unfortunately, they're already in the stratosphere and still headed north.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think under Jacques, we were very much a team that played extremely well defensively, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32574]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think under Jacques, we were very much a team that played extremely well defensively,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me  Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood   For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea    Of grass that waves around thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25228]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42532]]></link><description><![CDATA[An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37231]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389]]></link><description><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat buffet and they devour everything, there's a point at which the management has to come over and say, 'Enough's enough!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54826]]></link><description><![CDATA[For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'   And Lady Morgan making tay.    For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,     With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,      Fightin' like devils for conciliation,       And hatin' each other for the Love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39770</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[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is the deadliest form of denial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17530]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809</guid></item></channel></rss>