<?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[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24066]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61603]]></link><description><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</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[A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65736]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. The bridge is going to be blocked and this is going to be big, national news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, giveme liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57871]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sir, In what have I offended you? What cause  Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is definitely a big catch,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This therefore is a certain truth, that hell and death, curse and misery, can never cease or be removed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This therefore is a certain truth, that hell and death, curse and misery, can never cease or be removed from the creation till the will of the creature is again as it came from God and is only a Spirit of Love that wills nothing but goodness. All the whole fallen creation, stand it never so long, must groan and travail in pain, till every contrariety to the divine will is entirely taken from every creature. Which is only saying, that all the powers and properties of nature are a misery to themselves, can only work in disquiet and wrath, till the birth of the Son of God brings them under the dominion and power of the Spirit of Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men shut their doors against the setting sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406</guid></item></channel></rss>