<?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[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43139]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right living, and not merely as mistakes in the mind, for it is the effect they have on our actions which matters most. So soon as we abstract them from our lives and think of them only as faults in our mental machinery, we tend to embrace the greatest fallacy of all -- which is to think of Christianity as a way of looking at life instead of a way of changing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51044]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel the electricity today. I didn't see the spark in the team's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel the electricity today. I didn't see the spark in the team's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2981]]></link><description><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49402]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour,  And say it goeth by destiny   To hang or wed: both hath one hour;    And whether it be, I am well sure,     Hanging is better of the twain;      Sooner done, and shorter pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22606]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's upto you to fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39357</guid></item></channel></rss>