<?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[A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!  Though not for thee with classic shores to vie   In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye;    Yet hast thou scenes of beauty richly fraught     With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time  Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage   Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues    Have I liked several women; never any     With so full soul but some defect in her      Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,       And put it to the foil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625]]></link><description><![CDATA[An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be home in 15 minutes. Call me back in 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   From out of the sunset-lands,    So bountiful, so merciful,     So sweet of soul is she;      And over all the world she draws       Her cloak of charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482]]></link><description><![CDATA[things that give you standing in the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the current flies   Each bound it chafes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554]]></link><description><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61653]]></link><description><![CDATA[MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch  Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish   You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having the No.1 seed in a five-team district has a distinct advantage. That's something we're shooting for. Hopefully the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having the No.1 seed in a five-team district has a distinct advantage. That's something we're shooting for. Hopefully the kids will understand the importance of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had higher expectations and the kids had higher expectations, but realistically we had a lot of kids that were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had higher expectations and the kids had higher expectations, but realistically we had a lot of kids that were just playing their second year of varsity basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total number of eligible voters is 15.5 million, ... and we expect the turn-out to reach 11 or 12 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total number of eligible voters is 15.5 million, ... and we expect the turn-out to reach 11 or 12 million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item></channel></rss>