<?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[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57840]]></link><description><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24370]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see that conversation going that way at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30778]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, such as the rate of goal-scoring, bears out their expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that good teams win even when they don't play their best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth   And know not laughter's worth.    I have known laughter--therefore I     May sorrow with you far more tenderly      Than those who never guess how sad a thing       Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior year we'd be good. We're trying to do more than make the playoffs. That was our expectations at the beginning of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9228]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. [Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969]]></link><description><![CDATA[As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17675]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,   And the yellow god forever gazes down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the mother of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the mother of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three acres and a cow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three acres and a cow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56635]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11275]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is literature, not dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26690]]></link><description><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46636</guid></item></channel></rss>