<?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[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engrave this Quote 	The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau  Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers,  The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments--   The white arms and the raven hair--the braids,    And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace,     An India in itself, yet dazzling not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a zizzer zazzer zuzz as you can plainly see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their businesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30470]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a good hitter in a 3-2 count, do you throw a fastball he knows is coming or start fresh with the next hitter? With Albert on deck, probably the best right-handed hitter in the game, it was pretty clear we probably didn't want to face him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satanic school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Satanic school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined. [Lat., Equidem aeterna constitutione crediderim nexuque causarum atentium et multo ante destinatarum suum quemque ordinem immutabili lege percurrere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12977</guid></item></channel></rss>