<?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[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they can do better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they can do better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep levelwe can have or deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sign of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36635]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sign of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. [Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55031]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret of success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret of success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparelled April on the heel  Of limping Winter treads, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparelled April on the heel  Of limping Winter treads, even such delight   Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night    Inherit at my house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,  Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,   And hope will lull those woes to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254</guid></item></channel></rss>