<?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[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51569]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34572]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate work. That's why I got married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was nothing expressed to him that requires him to leave at that time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was nothing expressed to him that requires him to leave at that time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an exact science, it is an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as we wanted. We didn't reach our goal. This year our goal was to improve our record from last year to where we are now. To do that took teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12262]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We earned this tonight, not with great soccer, but with very hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We earned this tonight, not with great soccer, but with very hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As someone who has experienced the isolating effects of hearing loss first-hand, I felt compelled to help educate others and encourage them to no longer suffer in silence and get help,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19630]]></link><description><![CDATA["Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, andchoosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think: many do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18692]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24143]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will pardon me. It is his trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we think, we become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we think, we become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20728]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20728</guid></item></channel></rss>