<?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 pen is the tongue of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23660]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42428]]></link><description><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62229]]></link><description><![CDATA['If the world had no feeling, then there would be no suffering.. - the world would be such a better place, but the price would be never feeling happiness. is that a too higher price to pay?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27772]]></link><description><![CDATA[So little done, so much to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be loved, be lovable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25850]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be loved, be lovable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What weperceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon whatwe think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceivedetermines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to betrue. what we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. [Lat., Neque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes. [Lat., Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum, quam consensus et societas consiliorum et voluntatum.,]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only wealth is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only wealth is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29139]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's somebody that others can look up to just because she always does the right thing. She is very supportive and always positive, so that's always a good thing. When she is up, the team is also up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want him to get discouraged. But you could see he was getting better in practice every day. We started giving him some game time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37747]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18487</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></channel></rss>