<?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[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars united in their spheres,   Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,    Where mingled and yet separate appears     The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd      Through the serene and placid glassy deep,       Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your face system. It's a fun game to watch and a fun game to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is an event, never a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is an event, never a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31151]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all want to live longer, stay healthy and enjoy life more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273]]></link><description><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6789]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the effect of commercial intercourse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50481]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the effect of commercial intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64586</guid></item></channel></rss>