<?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[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance has no foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance has no foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47833]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no more, and shall no more return.   Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;    I stay a little longer, as one stays     To cover up the embers that still burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and cheaper, and the U.S. economy is strong, as are corporate profits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3362]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His Christianity was muscular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6156]]></link><description><![CDATA[His Christianity was muscular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded, With a crown of thorns surrounded,  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,   Smote with reed by striking shattered,    Face with spittle vilely smeared!     Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,      Marred by fouling stains and homely,       Changed as to its blooming color,        All now turned to deathly pallor,         Making heavenly hosts affeared!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the sound had parted thence,   Still left an echo in the sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29016]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to hone their artistry and make the transition from the classroom to the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item></channel></rss>