<?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[True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13038]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me singing in the Wilderness--   On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14487]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38303]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men need applause too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men need applause too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64295]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16704]]></link><description><![CDATA[One need not obey the rulesif he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope to be profitable later this year, because we keep increasing our prizes as we grow our user base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope to be profitable later this year, because we keep increasing our prizes as we grow our user base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides behind a magisterial air   He own offences, and strips others' bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item></channel></rss>