<?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 court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.]  Not all but a good part.   [It., Non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.]  Not all but a good part.   [It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly,  Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly,  Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,   They faint and languish by degrees,    And at a distance die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst person to be around is the one who complains about everything and appreciates nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even to go for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is not an act, it is a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,   They do not point on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51641]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Clo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55769]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Clo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we void it up again   With poisonous spite and envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but deceives;   'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'    One story no two daisies tell."     Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves      Under the daisy's mocking spell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46472]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. Like I'm at a carnival in a dream. Not sure that makes sense, but I do have pretty good pitch recognition. I see colors for different key signatures, notes, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an economic as well as an environmental catastrophe. Since 1995, businesses related to delta fishing have lost $4 billion -- boat dealers, marinas, restaurants, tackle shops -- everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41699]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dude is huge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dude is huge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176</guid></item></channel></rss>