<?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[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he fell down. The TV in his room was knocked off its stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19317]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raul is an important player for this side just like other experienced players in the squad. Great players always rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raul is an important player for this side just like other experienced players in the squad. Great players always rise to the occasion when it counts and can provide psychological support to the other players in the side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I speak two languages, Body and English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I speak two languages, Body and English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has no borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has no borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, and at the last one in July we had 99. It's amazing. This year we are hoping to have between 75-80 donations because it's the hardest time for the people who need blood to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59963</guid></item></channel></rss>