<?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[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22366]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves yourarms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart regardless of what others tell you to do. At the end of the day it's you that has to live with your decisions, not them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every sedge he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every sedge he overtook in his watery pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why he chose to post that. There was sufficient food and water in that hospital for at least another four days when we evacuated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some remedies are worse than the diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professionalclass is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reducesthe professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readilyreplaceable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32367]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45420]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We liberated a small part of our motherland and we will not give up our weapons before the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We liberated a small part of our motherland and we will not give up our weapons before the end of occupation in all the Palestinian territories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff!  Some think him ill-tempered and queer,   But a few think him pleasant enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do,  Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,   By--sending the wine round too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran out of PampersHe's buyin clothes for his new girland the baby just ran out of medicineYou ask for money for the baby?The daddy just ran out the doorGIRL! I can't believe him(I can..)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44915</guid></item></channel></rss>