<?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 quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a time when eligibility and services are being reduced in order to save money, an expansion of services for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38940]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a time when eligibility and services are being reduced in order to save money, an expansion of services for people who aren't eligible for the program is not under consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42772]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,   Like a celestial benison!    Here at the portal thou dost stand,     And with thy little hand      Thou openest the mysterious gate       Into the future's undiscovered land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am extremely proud of the way our staff handled the incident but I am upset it happened. Victim support were involved and the police were wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1972]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered  And a petition granted them, a strange one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2925]]></link><description><![CDATA[With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered  And a petition granted them, a strange one,   To break the heart of generosity,    And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps     As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,      Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller the head, the bigger the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer than they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think ultimately you've got to see how they do in the playoffs. But last year's team was good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think ultimately you've got to see how they do in the playoffs. But last year's team was good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item></channel></rss>