<?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[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54736]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49685]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,   High on the hollow tree;    And the Raven himself, telling his beads     In penance for his past misdeeds,      Upon the top I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30860]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63510]]></link><description><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53096]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53096</guid></item></channel></rss>