<?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[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awakening has begun!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205]]></link><description><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--      "I almost that that I could eat one raw."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they both are strong contenders especially with what they did this weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they both are strong contenders especially with what they did this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005]]></link><description><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told,  And in the last repeating troublesome,   Being urged at a time unreasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25828]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a child of his environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a child of his environment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past should be a springboard not a hammock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26649]]></link><description><![CDATA[All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to fall apart a little here and there, but we stuck to our game plan and (we're) just going to continue to work with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21353]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This curriculum has been 14 years in the making. It has been adopted by a number of states as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30378]]></link><description><![CDATA[This curriculum has been 14 years in the making. It has been adopted by a number of states as their P.E. curriculum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51370]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2061</guid></item></channel></rss>