<?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[It is not at all simple to understand the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been creating chances but haven't been finishing. It's such a tough district this year. It's going to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been creating chances but haven't been finishing. It's such a tough district this year. It's going to be a fight to the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5460]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Menendez has a fund raiser, and basically everyone donates to him. It's the way of business in Hudson County. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Menendez has a fund raiser, and basically everyone donates to him. It's the way of business in Hudson County.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw away my phoneI thought that you should knowI'd throw away my homeIf I had somewhere to goAnything to stopThe circle in my brainAnything is better than youMaking me feel lame28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWhy should I be sorryI've had enough of youPlease forget my nameI'm runnin around on emptyStill tryin to get awayAnything to killThe consciousness of youAnything to end myselfBefore the thought of you28 days to kick the habit28 days to let you go28 days and I'll be on my ownAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesNow you'll know what it feels like to bite your tongueNow you'll know what it feels like to be the oneWho walks around with knots in your stomachI've been there, and I've done itAnd now you'll know what it feels likeTo always be afraidOf everything you wanted to sayWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowWho's sorry nowAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesAll my life I've been sorry for somethingSomething gets me nothing and nothings such a wasteAll this time I've been sayin I'm sorryBut why should I be sorry for all of your mistakesWho's sorry now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie   Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress   In metre, as Druids did the savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65208</guid></item></channel></rss>