<?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[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61742]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter drug oft brings relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter drug oft brings relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21163]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain   Make Good    Together there we can begin again     In babyhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need:  Pepper and vinegar besides   Are very good indeed--    Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,     We can begin to feed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's exactly what I think both parties are trying to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23864]]></link><description><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was just ashamed and scared and came up with a story. It is wild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37734]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was just ashamed and scared and came up with a story. It is wild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That second requirement is going to be hard to prove in a courtroom. It is questionable whether any individual fish could be removed from the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24668]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54092]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins,  Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast   O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34490</guid></item></channel></rss>