<?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[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball was my favorite. Probably because I was better at it. It came more naturally for me than the other sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great fishpond (the sea). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great fishpond (the sea).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5935]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true   Who studied with me at the U-    Niversity of Gottingen.   - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44794]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. -Donald Trump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get off on a roll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and its up to me and a half mexican to stop him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to make it clear that I am continuing as manager of Leicester City, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to make it clear that I am continuing as manager of Leicester City,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830]]></link><description><![CDATA[There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2250]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860]]></link><description><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;  All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great believer makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one community even though we are separate towns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one community even though we are separate towns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2768]]></link><description><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease with grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12283]]></link><description><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374</guid></item></channel></rss>