<?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[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27509]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23782]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60713]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,  He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power,  He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed   Manifest Godhead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38814]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12628]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true before   Prove false again? Two hundred more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such as sports utility vehicles. This sector carried the manufacturing economy during the recession; now it is due to cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffic was driving right through the gasoline,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no otherdiscipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept lifeunquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run awayfrom, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in theend. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy,and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one forhim who has the vision to recognize it as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341</guid></item></channel></rss>