<?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[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very bestadvice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really hoping for a good showing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really hoping for a good showing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48173]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our belief in God and knowing that He controls things, whether good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never find fault with the absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' - July 27, 1992Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is warme, thinkes all so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is warme, thinkes all so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went from a barber to cattleman, out of cattle into horses. The rest is history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40664]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went from a barber to cattleman, out of cattle into horses. The rest is history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586]]></link><description><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst businessmistake if I don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst businessmistake if I don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62982]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to talk with me
I got you to kiss goodnight
I got you to hold me tight
I got you, I won't let go
I got you to love me so
I got you babe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that knowes nothing, doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that knowes nothing, doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44493]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story about the trusting friendship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35479]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough, it's an interesting little play -- part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story about the trusting friendship between women, but you lose a lot of that in the film. It's more clear throughout the play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47422]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17098</guid></item></channel></rss>