<?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[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise  To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being such a smile;   The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly    From so divine a temple to commix     With winds that sailors rail at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a holeThe old familiar stingTry to kill it all awayBut I remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58409]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8951]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20778</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[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56707]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin brings its punishment with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin brings its punishment with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance,  Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly   That feeds on dung is colored thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, experiencing things for the first time. That was the first time I had really broken things, and it felt so good - *beep*ing great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horses make a landscape look beautiful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59545</guid></item></channel></rss>