<?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[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need is around you; the danger lies within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone hears only what he understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to save up to bring the rest of his family over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest area in convergence for us is going to be as the computer moves from the office to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest area in convergence for us is going to be as the computer moves from the office to a home network. Your database is going to house your videos, your music and your photographs. And it's also going to be storing your data for work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,  Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,  Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure that it is a mistaken devotion which interferes with the duties of your natural state of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure that it is a mistaken devotion which interferes with the duties of your natural state of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2545]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris  Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38137]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their businesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60821]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60821</guid></item></channel></rss>