<?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[She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3822]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel  In brilliancy in smallest space,   And power to cut as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great trees are good for nothing but shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13567]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437]]></link><description><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123]]></link><description><![CDATA[[His posse of longtime pals provides another outlet.] They carry on like your classic 'boys will be boys,' ... knows who his friends are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64123]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they would not have of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same venue at $2,000 a pop, and people will spend all kinds of money. But we struggle because we don't have Playboy bunnies. We in the nonprofits are doing everything but selling ourselves at auction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's wish and no one could do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends:  Faithful friends! It lies I know  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11166]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends:  Faithful friends! It lies I know   Pale and white and cold as snow;    And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"     Weeping at the feet and head.      I can see your falling tears,       I can hear your sighs and prayers;        Yet I smile and whisper this:         I am not the thing you kiss.          Cease your tears and let it lie;           It was mine--it is not I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for meThe carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortaility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49397]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23571]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took 25 years to de-list the peregrine falcon. We are only at nine or 10 years and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took 25 years to de-list the peregrine falcon. We are only at nine or 10 years and we have a long way to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943]]></link><description><![CDATA[However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15288]]></link><description><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and pacing through the forest,   Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,    Lo, what befell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20192]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20192</guid></item></channel></rss>