<?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 mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will always be the ability for broadband users to connect to the content of their choice. What it will come down to, we hope, is that there will be other opportunities and other choices in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Water and ice deliveries were also tardy at some of the 11 distribution points opened in Miami-Dade County.] Ladies and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Water and ice deliveries were also tardy at some of the 11 distribution points opened in Miami-Dade County.] Ladies and gentlemen, we're trying, ... We're really trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14532]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42604]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between chambers of commerce in both regions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today this country is producing more first rate business graduates than elsewhere in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further than is necessary to some good end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And do as adversaries do in law,— Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -The Taming of the Shrew. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And do as adversaries do in law,— Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts often contradict with truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the chamber of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56700]]></link><description><![CDATA[smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</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[There is no defeat except for those who give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day you come to practice you can learn something from [NHL head coaches], and I think I've been doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day you come to practice you can learn something from [NHL head coaches], and I think I've been doing that for the last 13 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987]]></link><description><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987</guid></item></channel></rss>