<?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[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25132]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without excuse   Who steals a common from the goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19331]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63504]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day extremely sick by chance   And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all things with love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all things with love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66424]]></link><description><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65941]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled plea]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. That's what we'll need this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think at that point, down to final four, Trump was looking for a specific thing, ... He just couldn't find a way to articulate that when it came time to fire me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25981]]></link><description><![CDATA[My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29167]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got a few stick backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you put yourself in a situation where your back is against the wall and you come out and hold them to three points then you have done your job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45490]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world loves a spice of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is seated in the hearts of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57407]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is seated in the hearts of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if we are talking about an offer from Harrah's on Monday. The real question is, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if we are talking about an offer from Harrah's on Monday. The real question is, who can get the most synergies out of Mirage's business? I still believe MGM is the best match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22582</guid></item></channel></rss>