<?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[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16664]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;  To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and experience at London ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and experience at London Fog/Homestead has been the ideal partnership for us. We have worked closely with them from start to finish on this program and we are thrilled with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of cabmen in a block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm delighted we have a general manager who is in demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm delighted we have a general manager who is in demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,   Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.    It is most just to throw that on the ground,     Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62565]]></link><description><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Promise made is a debt unpaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Promise made is a debt unpaid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item></channel></rss>