<?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[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4526]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus with the gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The alternative is to do nothing and be ignored.] Once the penalties are levied, it's a silent message unless it's collected, ... So we make every effort to collect those outstanding penalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me. Playing in the SEC, you've got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me. Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child!  Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54894]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child!  Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,   Land of the mountain and the flood,    Land of my sires! what mortal hand     Can e'er untie the filial band,      That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10704]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,   And the yellow god forever gazes down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh to that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones willvanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47805]]></link><description><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item></channel></rss>