<?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[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60189]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love develops through friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love develops through friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570]]></link><description><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just happy that they're here with me and we get to play one more last game on the same side of the ball before we part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16704]]></link><description><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; and therefore, says David, The Lord reigneth, let the Islands rejoice -- the Islands who by reason of their situation, provision, and trading have most means of conveying Christ Jesus over the world. He hath carried us up to heaven & set us at the right hand of God, & shall not we endeavour to carry him to those nations, who have not yet heard of his name? Shall we still brag that we have brought our clothes, and our hatchets, and our knives, and bread to this and this value and estimation amongst those poor ignorant Souls, and shall we never glory that we have brought the name, and Religion of Christ Jesus in estimation amongst them? Shall we stay till other nations have planted a false Christ among them? And then either continue in our sloth, or take more pains in rooting out a false Christ than would have planted the true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦and instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35611]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦and instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I knew the good of wishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I knew the good of wishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</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/61262]]></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/61262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item></channel></rss>