<?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[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is you don't want to pick something too wacky, like a sector fund, or something too aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27837]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the bigger team. We couldn't just play them in the half court. We wanted to pressure them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't put robbers to work in a bank ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't put robbers to work in a bank]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,   Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to livehappily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48790]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting better, so we can try to extend the season as long as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47264]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might be a drop off in interest. What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you get down or take something for granted and then I'll stop and remember wow, I'm in an NFL ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you get down or take something for granted and then I'll stop and remember wow, I'm in an NFL camp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65437]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59979]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violet is a nun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violet is a nun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14915</guid></item></channel></rss>