<?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[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060]]></link><description><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With gently smiling jaws!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like giving birth to a kindergartener, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40182]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like giving birth to a kindergartener,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our team is a long way from being set for Germany. It will take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't always get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22822]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play out the play. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is merely gossip ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is merely gossip]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item></channel></rss>