<?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[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm,  Content to wither, pale and brief,   The trophy of thy paler form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study nature, not books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study nature, not books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51044]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully we got it soon enough to get it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860]]></link><description><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;  All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit   For the sound man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you cannot enforce, do not command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1485]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you cannot enforce, do not command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."  But grant me still a friend in my retreat,   Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say we are Almost as like as eggs. -The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25170]]></link><description><![CDATA[And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777</guid></item></channel></rss>