<?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[It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. So that's why they're here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662]]></link><description><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give money, spend yourself with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give money, spend yourself with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out   At every joint and motive of her body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be a little further away [than Phillips was].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060]]></link><description><![CDATA[How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,  And welcomes little fishes in   With gently smiling jaws!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut what you can untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47826</guid></item></channel></rss>