<?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[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose lightest word   Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,    Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,     Thy knotted and combined locks to part,      And each particular hair to stand on end       Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody roots for Goliath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her.  Briggs of Turlumme owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumme?--   Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in Frisco?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27961]]></link><description><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed   Was brow-bound with the oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God's green grows it's rarely in rowsAwry the rye rises .. unruly the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11744]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn\'t intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825</guid></item></channel></rss>