<?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[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw about a quarter of the defense. The offense had a little bit of an advantage. It came down to execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed be he who plays with the devil. [Ger., Verflucht wer mit dem Teufel spielt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:  Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,   And opens in each heart a little Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm as pure as the driven slush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers grow out of dark moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18882]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like blinking, I do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66195]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pleases one against his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46699</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[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43561]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item></channel></rss>