<?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[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the King of Rome, and above grammar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. - The Rising Gorge, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago ain't no sissy town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind  As man's ingratitude:   Thy tooth is not so keen,    Because thou art not seen,     Although thy breath be rude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56295]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26116]]></link><description><![CDATA[So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. [Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535]]></link><description><![CDATA[How's it going, Super Sonic?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nodding the head does not row the boat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35320]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free market is by far the best for the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16182]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' unfeeling for his own.    Yet ah! why should they know their fate,     Since sorrow never comes too late,      And happiness too swiftly flies?       Thought would destroy their paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24241]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Push on,--keep moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Push on,--keep moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a pandemic is a shared responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171]]></link><description><![CDATA[For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft--  Such a bright little,   Tight little,    Slight little,     Light little,      Trim little, slim little craft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517]]></link><description><![CDATA[What it triggers is the clock ticking. It just becomes a little more of a pressure cooker.... It's all stressful, uncertain times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396</guid></item></channel></rss>