<?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[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough when you break down like that in the seventh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough when you break down like that in the seventh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best revenge is massive success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best revenge is massive success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name   Robs me of that which not enriches him    And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to it. The great thing about [Jo] is that she can take what's thrown her way and handle it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</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[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense was dominant, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense was dominant,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6600]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair; His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth's uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity But only on this condition - do not build it By the sea where I was born, I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had it when he got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had it when he got here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men are the same. They're only interested in fucking you and they don't care whether you're happy or sad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men are the same. They're only interested in fucking you and they don't care whether you're happy or sad. They just want to get on with their business in and out of bed, and they make you feel that you don't count except as their sex toy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411]]></link><description><![CDATA[All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 percent of the [branded] price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly welcome anyone into this race, but the frank reality is when it comes to changing Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly welcome anyone into this race, but the frank reality is when it comes to changing Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann is the clear choice today and will be in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait and see what the situation is. You have to be prepared for anything. You just accept what comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian of a faith like this,   Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,    And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165</guid></item></channel></rss>