<?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[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [It., L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene e sempre inferiore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat thy company   To see the wonders of the world abroad    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,     Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So use your own property as not to injure that of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48909]]></link><description><![CDATA[So use your own property as not to injure that of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12884]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that stepped-up actions like those we take today will convince broadcasters that they cannot ignore their responsibility to serve the public interest and to avoid the broadcast of indecent material over the public airwaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithfully perform your duty, we, the people, may put you in the Presidential chair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stretch pant is a big and well-known segment for us. We chose the song because we wanted to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stretch pant is a big and well-known segment for us. We chose the song because we wanted to create an upbeat, energetic and fun mood for the spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32339]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18978]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men,  Strain not the laws to make their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52546]]></link><description><![CDATA[See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men,  Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work is to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work is to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, without anxiety; repentest, yet grievest not; art angry, yet serene; changest Thy works, Thy purpose unchanged; receivest again what Thou findest, yet didst never lose; never in need, yet rejoicing in gains; never covetous, yet exacting usury. Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine? Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing. And that have I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy? or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee? Yet woe to him that speaketh not, since mute are even the most eloquent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item></channel></rss>