<?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[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's first creature, which was light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53694]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's first creature, which was light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53441]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173]]></link><description><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll just have to wait until October for that to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30604]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll just have to wait until October for that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a 12-step program. The first step is to admit you have a problem. They still have 11 steps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a 12-step program. The first step is to admit you have a problem. They still have 11 steps to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are continually published, their confidence continues to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle wine cellar. But the sky is the limit if money is no problem. There are wine cellars . . . in the $100,000-plus range. Whatever you build, plan on spending $3 to $5 per bottle of wine for racking with a quality wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,  Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!   This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there    The columns of the heavenly palaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the position of the far right in Israel and this does not serve U.S. interests in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,   Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to humor is surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to humor is surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55006</guid></item></channel></rss>