<?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[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49399]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expect to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that most of the temporary housing ordered by FEMA has already been produced, but we expect to see an increase in demand for our products as demand increases for manufactured homes in late 2006 and early 2007 due to the anticipated permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37893]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't hang our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle    Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce    You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876</guid></item></channel></rss>