<?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[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[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.    'Tis he may clamber     To a lady's chamber      Or become a member       Of Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong  As proofs of holy writ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong  As proofs of holy writ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' I've stolen as much of the 'Seinfeld' crew as I could to give me a hedge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At dinner my man appeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49141]]></link><description><![CDATA[At dinner my man appeares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of justice, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that diversity is important. Period, ... Diversity overall, whether (involving) various ethnicities, out-of-state students, international students, religions, we know all of those students bring something unique to IU.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. [Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19102]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266]]></link><description><![CDATA[These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hit that first 3 and gave us that sense of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37157</guid></item></channel></rss>