<?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[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25528]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reticence is a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity never made a good bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66424]]></link><description><![CDATA[And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,   We are enforced to farm our royal realm,    The revenue whereof shall furnish us     For our affairs in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only react to it, but over-react to it. In this case, over-reacting was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinking to our practice, or to the practice of the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie   At rest within the ground,    'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June     When brooks send up a cheerful tune,      And groves a joyous sound,       The sexton's hand, my grave to make,        The rich, green mountain-turf should break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like in a store,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058]]></link><description><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect of the league. There are a lot more important things. It's a personal goal, and if I make it, it would be the icing on the cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust as much as we pray, we fail in full worship to our Lord in our prayer; and also we hinder and hurt ourselves. The reason is that we do not know truly that our Lord is the ground from which our prayer springeth; nor do we know that it is given us by his grace and his love. If we knew this, it would make us trust to have of our Lord's gifts all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with sincerity, without mercy and grace being given to him first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,  Die Tochter denk' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,  Die Tochter denk' ich.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,   And the moon and the stars by night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18638]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5378</guid></item></channel></rss>