<?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[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may be claim'd again which was but lent,   And should be yielded with no discontent,    Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,     That it was left us to enjoy it long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Declare World Party I ! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Declare World Party I !]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3455]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. First of all, he's starting to figure out that the speed of this game's different than it was at Howard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23672]]></link><description><![CDATA[A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urguentur ignotique sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every night, most of the focus is on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every night, most of the focus is on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15618]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,   Like the strong sunrise, broke away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38713]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, which bears the better temper,   Between two horses, which doth bear him best,    Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,     I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;      But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,       Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their earnings are in line with expectations for this quarter and the next, but there was no upside and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their earnings are in line with expectations for this quarter and the next, but there was no upside and the stock was priced for some degree of upside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570</guid></item></channel></rss>