<?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[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49354]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672]]></link><description><![CDATA[All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56281]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all that have life be delivered from suffering.Buddhist prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20932]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all that have life be delivered from suffering.Buddhist prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets their confidence up for the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The initiative is simple and straight forward. We want employers and employees to consider giving one hour of their wages, one time a year, to assist those in need across Idaho.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1155]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of the superior man is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of the superior man is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been pretty horrible. My girlfriend tried calling at about 12 o'clock the other night. She couldn't get one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13459]]></link><description><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36928]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic structure. It was bad luck that we couldn't get him for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special session, they're going to be down on the Capitol steps telling us to get out of there!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item></channel></rss>