<?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[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack   Of somebody to hew and hack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day unfolds it and one day destroys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48611]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day unfolds it and one day destroys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322]]></link><description><![CDATA[History, a distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39785]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studious of elegance and ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studious of elegance and ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57454]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roche is one of the most outstanding companies in the pharmaceutical industry in our view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roche is one of the most outstanding companies in the pharmaceutical industry in our view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28882]]></link><description><![CDATA[represented the generation of young Scots who fought in the First World War, and endured unimaginable horrors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554</guid></item></channel></rss>