<?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[He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1950]]></link><description><![CDATA[He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. [Lat., Oculos et vestiga domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44187]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39291]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power of attorney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the first essential cell of human society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've proposed is the result of many months of work and feedback from hundreds of people in San Diego ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've proposed is the result of many months of work and feedback from hundreds of people in San Diego County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken by the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts, to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what has been divinely commanded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why slander we the times? What crimes  Have days and years, that we   Thus charge them with iniquity?    If we would rightly scan,     It's not the times are bad, but man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432]]></link><description><![CDATA[For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item></channel></rss>