<?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 is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;   (A living sermon of the truths he taught:)    For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:     That all might see the doctrines which they heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on alldarknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on alldarknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46005]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isaiah 551 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isaiah 551 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every month when my check came we would do one nice thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every month when my check came we would do one nice thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30690]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27885]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave burdens, also shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22121]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave burdens, also shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally with the military action, by the alliance, cooperation and gathering of all leaders of opinion and influence in the Iraqi arena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57838</guid></item></channel></rss>