<?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[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get after your man,' and that's what happened. We were able to knock the ball loose and go down and score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that day in and day out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's always room for improvement, you know-it's the biggest room in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20678]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's always room for improvement, you know-it's the biggest room in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many friends in generall, one in speciall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</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[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. I'll take the same approach as last year. All I can do is prepare for battle. When game time comes I'll play above and beyond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners fling,   And the tempest clouds are driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13786</guid></item></channel></rss>