<?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[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why we're here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is only the will to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is only the will to reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48658]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied gas and kerosene should stay at the same level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48370]]></link><description><![CDATA[From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text;  And embryo good, to reach full stature,   Absorbs the evil in its nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136]]></link><description><![CDATA[He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know coach's record. I don't know what everybody else's record is. But we're all cheering for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19623]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys   His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;    While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,     Displays her cleanly platter on the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning,  Nothing shall come amiss,   And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15586]]></link><description><![CDATA[On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning,  Nothing shall come amiss,   And we won't go home till morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;    So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;     Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,      Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharing is loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharing is loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less is only more where more is no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less is only more where more is no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:  There all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:  There all in sweet confusion sought the shade,   And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are innocent people ... Those criminals and terrorists came and did this to us,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36718</guid></item></channel></rss>