<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mayor says he supports the Republican Party, but we do not yet have a bipartisan commission. The mayor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mayor says he supports the Republican Party, but we do not yet have a bipartisan commission. The mayor is not running a Republican on the ticket, but is always reaching out for the Republican vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14123]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1206]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906]]></link><description><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5025]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morgan!--She ain't nothing else, and I've got the papers to prove it. Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won't buy her.  Briggs of Turlumme owned her. Did you know Briggs of Turlumme?--   Busted hisself in White Pine and blew out his brains down in Frisco?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's character is his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's character is his fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   What unto themselves was taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasons of the poore weigh not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9005</guid></item></channel></rss>