<?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 thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18346]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a good execution play on their part and maybe a little over aggressive on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we came up with the idea of dressing up as ice princesses. So it's been kind of fun. We'd hate to be another person in blaze orange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades, ... That's all I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See and to be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56254]]></link><description><![CDATA[See and to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63800]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was fabulous, but it was a close one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was fabulous, but it was a close one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268]]></link><description><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16966]]></link><description><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item></channel></rss>