<?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[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn   Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,    That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,     So let us welcome peaceful evening in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consideration, like an angel, came And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44796]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498]]></link><description><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5778]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39063]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they get to high school and they think they know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337]]></link><description><![CDATA[In principle, there are no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34290]]></link><description><![CDATA[During that period we greatly improved the financial health of the company by selling low-return businesses, reducing debt, stabilizing AOL, and made significant progress in resolving the company's legal challenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38315]]></link><description><![CDATA[But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es  Semine quando opus est rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:  So lines that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:  So lines that from their parallel decline,   More they proceed the more they still disjoin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to the crowd, and his speech was fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item></channel></rss>