<?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 take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly   Conveys soft whispers to the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies   Upon the paths of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;  Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make men giddy, proud, and vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good artists copy, great artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farmers are pretty efficient, and grow a pretty good crop. We can prove that. It's just we need more uses for it, and use it at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in this game, you have to have a short memory. You have to leave it at the rink and leave it alone. We're excited to be in the playoffs and to be playing at home in the playoffs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False face must hide what the false heart doth know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64688]]></link><description><![CDATA[False face must hide what the false heart doth know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61256]]></link><description><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed too like a meteor to repel her foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always admired Mrs. Grote's saying that politics and theology were the only two really great subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not worth a button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not worth a button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  We may search so far, and reason so long of faith and grace, as that we may lose not only them, but even our reason too, and sooner become mad than good. Not that we are bound to believe any thing against reason, that is, to believe, we know not why. It is but a slack opinion, it is not Belief, that is not grounded upon Reason. It is true, we have not a Demonstration; not such an Evidence as that one and two are three, to prove these to be Scriptures of God; God hath not proceeded in that manner, to drive our reason into a pound, and to force it by a peremptory necessity to accept these for Scriptures, for then, here had been no exercise of our Will, and our assent, if we could not have resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself  To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common   That men are merriest when they are from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44281</guid></item></channel></rss>