<?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[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37578]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60353]]></link><description><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59398]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374]]></link><description><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49340]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568]]></link><description><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only the beginning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only the beginning,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More will mean worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41916]]></link><description><![CDATA[More will mean worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7558]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so that to his knowledge there is nothing future or past, but all things are present. And they are present in such a way that he not only conceives them through ideas, as we have before us those things which our minds remember, but he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him. And this foreknowledge is extended throughout the universe to every creature. We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he determined with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others. Therefore, as any man has been created to one or the other of these ends, we speak of him as predestined to life or death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47966</guid></item></channel></rss>