<?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[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,  When nearer seen, and better known,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,  When nearer seen, and better known,   Are but gigantic flights of stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, served no private end,   Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,    Ennobled by himself, by all approved,     And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is a winner because he is as strong - if not stronger - than Gov. Pataki with Republicans, because he is going to be around in New York while Pataki is a lame duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of its stock represents a very attractive investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65679]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18620]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60230]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul   In his opinion the leaders of the Church had grown so used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul   In his opinion the leaders of the Church had grown so used to the spectacle of the world neglecting the wisdom of Christ that they had ceased to be shocked by it and what was wanted was a renewal of the apostolic spirit among cardinals and archbishops and papal nuncios. It was no use preaching the gospel only to those who came to church to hear it. The gospel ought to be preached to those who didn't want to hear it as well: to industrialists in their offices, to clubmen in their windows, to workers in their yards and factories, to bibbers in their taverns, to harlots in their doorways, to all those should the sweet tidings of Christ be taught. It was a sorry matter for reflection that it was only heretics who dared to brave the sneers of the mob by crying aloud the Name of Jesus at street corners and in the market place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987]]></link><description><![CDATA[That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,  Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483</guid></item></channel></rss>