<?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[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,   Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to lean with it to get away from his length, but he still blocked the shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30102]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has been elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing through the gates of pearly splendor, Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing at the Blue Iguana]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. [It., La vostra nominanza e color d'erba,  Che viene e va; e quei la discolora   Per cui ell' esce della terra acerba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to figure things out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295</guid></item></channel></rss>