<?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 am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is reallyaccording to order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,   And giv'st access, though secret she retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a sustainable situation that investors can benefit from, I can't answer that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13687]]></link><description><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earned with the sweat of my brows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earned with the sweat of my brows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18883]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration in first-quarter growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25268]]></link><description><![CDATA[People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24263]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438</guid></item></channel></rss>