<?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[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100]]></link><description><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been contained except I made the prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character of a person is in direct proportion to hiscommitment to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character of a person is in direct proportion to hiscommitment to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was going to be close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I guess I figured out that in a relationship you can't choose when you want to like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I guess I figured out that in a relationship you can't choose when you want to like this person or that one...you're in a relationship for a reason and you need to stick with it or give it up. And I'm not ready to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken foot. I think I did well on my passing drills and in the interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26221]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello Montreal! 'Fuck You' would be a good sign at your highways! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hello Montreal! 'Fuck You' would be a good sign at your highways!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28048]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28048</guid></item></channel></rss>