<?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 that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48239]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65707]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30198]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a superb bill for America. It lets people keep their money, increases growth and job opportunity, and it's just the beginning. You ain't seen nothing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest superiority.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38892]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17565]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28272]]></link><description><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in generating non-farm employment in rural areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a man may prophesy,   With a near aim, of the main chance of things    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds     And weak beginnings lie intreasured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A terrorist who wants to do great damage will therefore not find anything in the article that is likely to increase his or her certainty concerning the minimum level of toxin to use,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire death honours the whole life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55428</guid></item></channel></rss>