<?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[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity and lying are cousins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is euphoric. There is no stopping the peso's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart must now be grieved to see   The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1013]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text,  Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote   Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,    And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,andundernourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I've learned is you treat women right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I've learned is you treat women right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding than any other sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life   To feel all feeling die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build   My castles in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60883</guid></item></channel></rss>