<?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[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45765]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as good as the people you hire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089]]></link><description><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning experience just going in and having fun and watching the other guys, seeing what they do and just kind of get a feel for what I have to do to get to this level,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot answer all the curious questions of the brain concerning prayer and law, not half of them, indeed, and I will not attempt to; but I will cast my anchor here in this revealing fact, that He, the Holiest of the Holy and the Wisest of the Wise, He prays. Therefore I am assured that this anchorage of Divine example will hold the vessel in the tossings of the wildest sea of doubt, and I shall be as safe as He was, if the vessel itself is engulfed in the waves of suffering and sorrow. His act is an argument. His prayer is an inspiration. His achievements are the everlasting and all-sufficient vindication of prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;  Nor shall they fail, till, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;  Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,   Life's golden fruit is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the King of Bethlehem, Who weareth in his diadem  The yellow crocus for the gem   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the King of Bethlehem, Who weareth in his diadem  The yellow crocus for the gem   Of his authority!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11654]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or light   Whiff of a dream for a summer night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item></channel></rss>