<?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[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Reallife. But there was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21120]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Reallife. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotthrough first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debtto be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that theseobstacles were my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe this world is another planet's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. [Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. [Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18890]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the violence will continue. Alas, we have learned not to believe that deliverance is around the corner. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the violence will continue. Alas, we have learned not to believe that deliverance is around the corner. We are at the end of year three of this war and every hope that the violence has subside, has been betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20311]]></link><description><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50402]]></link><description><![CDATA[You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49402]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only words...unless they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;  And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!   We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,    By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have some good running backs ... they look much improved from last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting pictures mile on mile,    Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths     Whence a smokeless incense breathes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item></channel></rss>