<?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[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19023]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886]]></link><description><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than howvaluable we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the form of adversity, many people find that they need help to sell their house fast. The urgency involved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the form of adversity, many people find that they need help to sell their house fast. The urgency involved requires an investor who knows exactly what to do when time is so critical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but I'd rather let other people enjoy the surprise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12316]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company will have to find a way to incorporate these kind of technologies in into their future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company will have to find a way to incorporate these kind of technologies in into their future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48979]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63935]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. [Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet non pudebit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every hill of flame   She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advice is that the replacement of turf that has taken place over the last 48 hours is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advice is that the replacement of turf that has taken place over the last 48 hours is going to solve the problem for this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820</guid></item></channel></rss>