<?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[And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4893]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant,  With cavaliers are cavaliers   And with the saints, a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeenhurt before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll  Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence   Becomes a benefaction to the towns    They visit, wandering silently among them,     Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richie is about two weeks from throwing off the mound. Pauly is a little behind him, probably a month away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some followers of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannnot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The strongest saints and the strongest sceptics alike took positive evil as the starting-point of their argument. If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and Man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58326]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded,   Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still,    With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded     On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill      Upon the other, and the rosy sky       With one star sparkling through it like an eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was shot for no reason. It's just like anyone walking up to anyone and saying, 'I don't like how your hair looks,' and shooting him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51040]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64996]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item></channel></rss>