<?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[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/249]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522]]></link><description><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be the premier facility in the valley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,  Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going to determine that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33689]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31769]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing, ... They will always support you here and it's brilliant to win in front of your home crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of (tennis) rather than in tennis."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep yourfoot on first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health care was the main issue in about 45 or 46 percent of our cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3328]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not your expenditure exceed your income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not your expenditure exceed your income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37966</guid></item></channel></rss>