<?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[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20902]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11104]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29567]]></link><description><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39657]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ability to grind it out and play a physical way. Certainly, he was a real good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear,  As a matter they had no concern in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18992]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear,  As a matter they had no concern in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36821]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item></channel></rss>