<?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[The end must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many waies to fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many waies to fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they amend the (Mine Safety) Act, I don't see how they are going to differentiate between the different categories of mining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,   The might--the majesty of Loveliness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3841</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[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road you can get the same thing for a lower price. They think just because people don't have cars that they can jack up the prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want to feed him fastballs. I threw him some breaking balls off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30428]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much more to them out there on the course. We're not there yet. We need to continue to improve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the epitaph of an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in the second quarter and they really struggled shooting the ball. Obviously, that made things easier for us. We didn't change anything. We went with our game plan. We just did a better job executing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23162]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue   Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,    And drinks my spirit up!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great thing is created suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10556]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great thing is created suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. I am very middling, replied the Lion, but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me. No, thank you, said the Fox. I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543</guid></item></channel></rss>