<?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 discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A countenance inconceivably forbidding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A countenance inconceivably forbidding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/352]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red,  Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8913]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red,  Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138]]></link><description><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,  Occasionem de die.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read and see the benefits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to take it as a challenge, ... We're looking forward to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to take it as a challenge, ... We're looking forward to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last few months, we've given several promotions within the department... and I think that's brought more stability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last few months, we've given several promotions within the department... and I think that's brought more stability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65675]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine safe for the race on Sunday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57130]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and a soldier all people adore In time of war, but not before;  And when war is over and all things are righted,   God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item></channel></rss>