<?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[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, but I had to hold it back. It was really different. ... I'll do more cheering this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47645]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the times that try men's souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10711]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the times that try men's souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their silence cries aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their silence cries aloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in the same boat as everyone else. Just waiting and hoping that it was going to get done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in the same boat as everyone else. Just waiting and hoping that it was going to get done sooner than later,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12063]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55285]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59587]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,   Serves but to brighten our future days!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50799</guid></item></channel></rss>