<?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[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,   Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The school committee) needs to see the death rack that we have to go through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do with all your might. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Karma ran over your dogma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We have to bounce back. This is another big week for us. We're playing some tough teams, and we really have to rise to the occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20184]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an extreme outpouring from the public when it first aired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32224]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an extreme outpouring from the public when it first aired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item></channel></rss>