<?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[-Sir To. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Sir To.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63893]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a cool retreat   On the Point of Interrogation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun again. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40374]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun again. For the overall standings it is great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better image and appearance. Our community betterment task force has done a great job over the last eight months of starting these initiatives and really making a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"  And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,   And then I will let you a better."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23974]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayers go up and blessings come down]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing new is fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not in combat the last time I checked. We've got some time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not in combat the last time I checked. We've got some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the end is the limitation ofthe moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22781]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the end is the limitation ofthe moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,   He lays for us the pillows straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp    There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56692]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song;  But the man worth while is the one who will smile   When everything does dead wrong;    For the test of the heart is trouble,     And it always comes with the years,      But the smile that is worth the praise of earth       Is the smile that comes through tears.        . . . .         But the virtue that conquers passion,          And the sorrow that hides in a smile--           It is these that are worth the homage of earth,            For we find them but once in a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56692</guid></item></channel></rss>