<?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[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   So echoes answered when her song was sung    In the first wooded vale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3664]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I fear most is fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A storm in a cream bowl.   - James Butler, first Duke of Ormonde,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion and strife bow down the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime congregantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66833]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get into too many details as to what the investigation turned up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get into too many details as to what the investigation turned up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the way the judiciary is being used as an instrument against critics now is a real problem. It shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the way the judiciary is being used as an instrument against critics now is a real problem. It shows the problems for the trials and the problem for the United Nations to be mixed up with these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked to play a tough, physical game and the officials let us play that way tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par etre fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526</guid></item></channel></rss>