<?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[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roadmap is inoperative and nothing has replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51749]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11082]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy to be here. My mother's prayers were answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy to be here. My mother's prayers were answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To play on the second biggest day on the football calendar is enormous and, for our young guys, it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35427]]></link><description><![CDATA[To play on the second biggest day on the football calendar is enormous and, for our young guys, it will give them a taste of a finals-type atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government has decided to set up 90 apni mandis at a cost of Rs 13.50 crore. It would be ensured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government has decided to set up 90 apni mandis at a cost of Rs 13.50 crore. It would be ensured that every assembly constituency gets one mandi,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to think I have a great deal of expertise,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12359</guid></item></channel></rss>