<?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[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50663]]></link><description><![CDATA[With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme  In misery; such joy ambition finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14064]]></link><description><![CDATA["You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a free speaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthy expansion is expected to continue drawing on strong internal dynamics, particularly, growth in the PRC and structural improvements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthy expansion is expected to continue drawing on strong internal dynamics, particularly, growth in the PRC and structural improvements in South Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They figured they would be moving, downsizing or able to pay it off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35329]]></link><description><![CDATA[They figured they would be moving, downsizing or able to pay it off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the smartest basketball player I've certainly seen. He's multi-dimensional. There's not one, two or three, but four things he does really well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest goes to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest goes to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers must continue to have the choice to use these products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make! What heavy burdens from our bosoms take,  What parched ground refresh as with a shower! We kneel, and all around us seems to lower; We rise, and all, the distant and the near, Stands forth in sunny outline brave and clear; We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,  Or other, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heratless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item></channel></rss>