<?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[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very popular. He got along with everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29346]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very popular. He got along with everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are venison in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team that gets the calls. Today I thought we earned the calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37638</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[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48595]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time testing more fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068]]></link><description><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues of ancient promise there imprest;   Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to pour services into the home and offer everything we can to make sure a family can stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to pour services into the home and offer everything we can to make sure a family can stay together,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play so that you may be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can come of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can come of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, and every day it was snowing. Joe went to school, and I had to stay in the house all the time, watching the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we visit. We also welcome suggestions about artifacts that we might want to exhibit in the new museum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a strike next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer I know has trouble writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28282]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a way, this election is the rebirth of Liberia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item></channel></rss>