<?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[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13006]]></link><description><![CDATA[How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny other man;   If my floures ouver fade or falle,    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle     As many a woman can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night of the Wolf,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3186]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by people in Mexico that long ago and eventually came up into the American Southwest (4,000 years ago).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22862]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ordinary moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66783]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every hill of flame   She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34782]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a catalog of the avarice of central committee members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item></channel></rss>