<?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[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up some weight too. They have responded here the last four-five games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that has to live with your decisions, not them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40400]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070]]></link><description><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I: for then I have no father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to the future is not about survival, it's about unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to the future is not about survival, it's about unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65186]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12671]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye!   Over the table,--look out for the lamp!    The rogue is growing a little old;     Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,      And slept out-doors when nights were cold,       And ate and drank and starved together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. They were fun to watch play. When they received that award, they were all dressed up in red and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without forgiveness, there's no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without forgiveness, there's no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And for tricks that are vain,    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528</guid></item></channel></rss>