<?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[Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47627]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,   And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boasting TravelerA man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly   That feeds on dung is colored thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item></channel></rss>