<?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[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait The consecration of thy beautious feet. Ride on triumphantly; behold! we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way. Hosannah! welcome to our hearts: Lord, here Thou hast a temple too, and full as dear  As that of Sion; and as full of sin -- Nothing but thieves and robbers dwell therein; Enter and chase them forth, and cleanse the floor,  Crucify them, that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face. And then if our still tongues shall be  Mute in the praises of thy deity, The stones out of the temple wall  Shall cry aloud and call Hosannah! and thy glorious footsteps greet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;   But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent    Most disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our subs came in and did a good job to hold it close until halftime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51690]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,   That sings so delicately clear, and make    Conjecture of the plumage and the form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.  Methinks it is like a weasel.   It is backed like a weasel.    Or like a whale.     Very like a whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote with your life; vote yes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote with your life; vote yes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers--  "Where?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211]]></link><description><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and Eliot looks forward to debating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20959]]></link><description><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we think, we become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we think, we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism means barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism means barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2038</guid></item></channel></rss>