<?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[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angry poor people are 'enraged.'  Angry rich people are 'livid.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up a couple times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate would come to focus on those issues ? focus on the things your constituents are concerned about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who are already against the release of this information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11515]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. [It., D'ogni pianta palesa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. [It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto  Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde   Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2436]]></link><description><![CDATA[American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50450]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62081]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But it's a business. They do what they do to benefit the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344</guid></item></channel></rss>