<?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[A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to make friends is before you need them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to make friends is before you need them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21833]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really isno other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is justanother present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, youcannot live it until it does appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavyweight division takes as much of a blow on this as Bob Arum did. It's not good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavyweight division takes as much of a blow on this as Bob Arum did. It's not good for the heavyweight division. You can't cry over spilled milk. Whatever is left out there, you have to make the best of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058]]></link><description><![CDATA[While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th grade next year when she goes back home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52259]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not often you get a tie in swimming. But it was a good meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A relationship is only complicated when one person is running it... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A relationship is only complicated when one person is running it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51075]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55415]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40241]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I arrived in London 11 years ago, restaurant service was terrible. It's getting better every year. Americans tend to be over-the-top about complaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35854</guid></item></channel></rss>