<?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['Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20605]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20893]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--   Creation's blot, creation's blank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023]]></link><description><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42736]]></link><description><![CDATA[And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general cry   Tickle and entertain us, or we die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47881]]></link><description><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that riseth first, is first drest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot insult a religion whatever it is. To defend the dignity of one's religion does not mean one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34960]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot insult a religion whatever it is. To defend the dignity of one's religion does not mean one is radical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54970]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born,  Sang with many a change,   Christmas carols until morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daughter had just got off the bus, she was going to go get her and come right back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19024</guid></item></channel></rss>