<?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[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are obviously delighted that we will be able to extend 'The Sopranos' series beyond its slated 12 episodes. We are thrilled that David Chase (the show's creator) felt there are more stories to be told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65276]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63571]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15189]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27461]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children learn to smile from their parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37388]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our goals was to have a quarter where we only gave up nine points or less. Instead, we only gave up nine in the half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name is better than precious ointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43629]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name is better than precious ointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33531]]></link><description><![CDATA[American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feet that run on willing errands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55586]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But he threw a strike when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duty cannot exist without faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duty cannot exist without faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item></channel></rss>