<?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[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27598]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:   How in my words somever she be shent,    To give them seals never, my soul, consent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress   In metre, as Druids did the savages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you marry for money, you will surely earn it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my, it's very beautiful over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve or faint;   "His life is Christ, his death is gain."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what the [lawsuit] is going to do is have people realize that the government is there to protect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what the [lawsuit] is going to do is have people realize that the government is there to protect consumers, not to protect one competitor over another,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45166]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item></channel></rss>