<?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[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to crowds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38844]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them seem to convince themselves that this is a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them seem to convince themselves that this is a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item></channel></rss>