<?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 are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[anger is a short time time madness... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2624]]></link><description><![CDATA[anger is a short time time madness...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasty Wednesday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult  Et cito vult fieri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villagers do not think village cricket is funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair and softly goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danielle probably finishes 98 percent of the time down there. She got in great position. Us guards just need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danielle probably finishes 98 percent of the time down there. She got in great position. Us guards just need to feed her the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56579]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more slave States and no more slave territory.   - Salmon Portland Chase,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone,  To look at his little snug farm of the world,   And see how his stock went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation never falls but by suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation never falls but by suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind,  And pipings of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind,  And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4562</guid></item></channel></rss>