<?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[Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen.  Their lashes are the herbs that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen.  Their lashes are the herbs that look   On their young figures in the brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16085]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19240]]></link><description><![CDATA[True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56454]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see you have a singing face--a heavy, dull, sonata face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281]]></link><description><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats the drum.The hour of grief.The darkened sun.Thy will be donerolls the drum.The sound of shot.The grave begun.Thy will be donemourns the drum.**by N Marshall Bertsch(N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundlygriefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's just wacky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably use it seven days a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61785]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[had everything to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904]]></link><description><![CDATA[had everything to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399]]></link><description><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65870]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65105</guid></item></channel></rss>