<?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[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I have done my duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I have done my duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale and cider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance, like time, devours its own children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance, like time, devours its own children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round,   "What love can ever cure this wound?"    My days go on, my days go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a lover, and find a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a lover, and find a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1286]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things that are not at all, are never lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea complains upon a thousand shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations, ... When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12460</guid></item></channel></rss>