<?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[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305]]></link><description><![CDATA[History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54347]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree;  Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,   Man, take thine old cloake about thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bid the devil take the hin'most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12139]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bid the devil take the hin'most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50904]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt,  Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember I had to play with Nancy Lopez in my first game (foursome) and I didn't know if I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember I had to play with Nancy Lopez in my first game (foursome) and I didn't know if I was going to ask her for autograph. You know, we were so nervous to play with these players that we had never met and obviously they had been idols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55403]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19926]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that most people have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,   An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way they're so proper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way they're so proper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to play another team we haven't seen yet. Lawrence has a lot of talent. To be No. 1, you have to beat the best teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legal basis ... If this child came from anywhere else, he would have been home within 48 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legal basis ... If this child came from anywhere else, he would have been home within 48 hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I have pretty much a green light on offense, and that's why it's working out so good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item></channel></rss>