<?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[I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/355]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48054]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this development as a government crisis. We will continue the negotiations ... this development will not influence the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11017]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/529]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity and treating begin at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity and treating begin at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The careful pilot of my proper woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The careful pilot of my proper woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take life one day at a time,it's not how fast we move or how long we live..it's how we cherish every moment...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a deal killer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The medicine chest of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978]]></link><description><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some of them have been here since middle school, so they're comfortable with and trust each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball around and run our motion like we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625</guid></item></channel></rss>