<?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[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836]]></link><description><![CDATA[People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of the things he has said. He keeps saying it will be a war, but he has got me more fired up than I've been for any fight and we'll see how he copes when I meet him in the middle of the ring. I think I'm too good and too hot for him to handle. He's never been at this level before and he's in for a shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's talk withal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to hold up and threw the ball away and felt like just the biggest idiot alive at that point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 It's true we cannot reach Christ's forti'th day Yet to go part of that religious way   Is better than to rest: We cannot reach our Savior's purity; Yet we are bid, 'Be holy ev'n as He':   In both let's do our best. Who goeth in the way which Christ hath gone Is much more sure to meet with Him than one   That traveleth by-ways; Perhaps my God, though He be far before,  May turn, and take me by the hand, and more,   May strengthen my decays. Yet, Lord, instruct us to improve our fast By starving sin, and taking such repast   As may our faults control; That ev'ry man may revel at his door, Not in his parlor -- banquetting the poor,   And among those, his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,   Heaven in earth, and God in man. Great little one! whose all-embracing birth   Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heav'n to earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38290]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38693]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270]]></link><description><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751</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[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47427]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8682]]></link><description><![CDATA[As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3133</guid></item></channel></rss>