<?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[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will see what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will see what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can also be an erogenous zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62683]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can also be an erogenous zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59124]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without excuse   Who steals a common from the goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed is to make any' good' choice, believe in it, go through with it, and accept the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam,  There's a warmth about to glow,   There's a flower about to blow;    There's a midnight blackness changing     Into gray;      Men of thought and men of action,       Clear the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This is a huge relief to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60337</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[A healthy mind has an easy breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy mind has an easy breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion, again, as he has all year long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion, again, as he has all year long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it withinhimself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59090]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I decided we were going to make them work together, and that really made the argumentation between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40805]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I decided we were going to make them work together, and that really made the argumentation between the two of them go away. Now they really have to work together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   Some artless linnet sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item></channel></rss>