<?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[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43461]]></link><description><![CDATA[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/43461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clean. It's not simple, but if you read the questions carefully it's not that difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45556]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to play with your head and your heart. You can't play with one or the other, or you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37606]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to play with your head and your heart. You can't play with one or the other, or you'll get killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56736]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37455]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I've been trying to stress the whole time. It's a safety issue. It's only a matter of time before someone gets killed or is seriously injured on that road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1211]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat  The stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat  The stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680]]></link><description><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15846]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27967]]></link><description><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is a receipt, not a bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is a receipt, not a bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can go harder out there now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/370]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,  Tormenting himself with his prickles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43316]]></link><description><![CDATA[That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; For who digs hills because they do aspire  Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52446]]></link><description><![CDATA[No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item></channel></rss>