<?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[Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny;  And the miser-bees are busy   Hoarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny;  And the miser-bees are busy   Hoarding golden honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48418]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its tunes amongst the leaves?    Oh, is it from the waters,     Or from the long, tall grass?      Or is it from the hollow rocks       Through which its breathings pass?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's progress from them. They said when they withdrew from the market that it was because tech stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's progress from them. They said when they withdrew from the market that it was because tech stocks were down. They've certainly had developments since then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get it together in the first half. In the second, Real came at us but we fortunately played better. We may have won but, to be fair, we didn't play well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working and making a fire doth discretion require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is revenge--especially to women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On entre, on crie,  Et c'est la vie!   On baille, on sort,    Et c'est la mort!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we work hard and we deserve a lot more respect than we're getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50683]]></link><description><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create one for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19400</guid></item></channel></rss>