<?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[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to tango. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to tango.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29445]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, too ... I think there is a sort of emptiness in our look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25835]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par etre fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;  You smile but you shall wear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;  You smile but you shall wear   Orange blossoms in your hair, Marguerite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40514]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43461]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.  And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,   He clothes them with music and fire,    Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,     That he worships his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is the secret of survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941]]></link><description><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57689</guid></item></channel></rss>