<?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[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,   For lo! my own shall come to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36168]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, came to the shelter and offered me a way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,  Lift not your hands to it for help--for it   As impotently moves as you or I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24458]]></link><description><![CDATA[American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express ,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48207</guid></item></channel></rss>