<?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[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, they're hitting the ball a little better than I thought they would. We're scoring runs because we're getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, they're hitting the ball a little better than I thought they would. We're scoring runs because we're getting timely hits. It seems that we've had one or two innings where we've scored all our runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches on the blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else  Like kindred drops been mingled into one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every believer is God's miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44902]]></link><description><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can die   In all this northern gleam?    At every turn the maples burn,     The quail is whistling free,      The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs       Are dropping for you and me.        Ho! hillyho! heigh O!         Hillyho!          In the clear October morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, everyone self-evacuated except for one woman the police escorted out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37549]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ivy; bold to leap a height   'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves    As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too     (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While women need the right to birth control and abortion, we also need to be able to have and raise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38744]]></link><description><![CDATA[While women need the right to birth control and abortion, we also need to be able to have and raise children, and that means equal opportunity, good jobs and equal pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such a toll they have to come out and rest for about an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the idea. We have a lot of potential going forward. It's not a situation where teams can focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33270]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the idea. We have a lot of potential going forward. It's not a situation where teams can focus on one or two players. We have a number of players who can contribute going forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49617</guid></item></channel></rss>