<?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[To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,   Fair child!--it was the bliss within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows  Her state with oary feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comforters head never akes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comforters head never akes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware   What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to remind myself that this is for next year so I'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29175]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. So we just have to be able to contain him and not let him get outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16103]]></link><description><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet   Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21075]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wouldachieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly mustsacrifice greatly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17001]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to call 911,' and I just thought, OK, whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50909]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal man is wise at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,   And namely that that to us alle is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear  That unicorns may be betrayed with trees   And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,    Lions with toils, and men with flatterers,     He says he does, being then most flattered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rose up at the dawn of day,-- "Get thee away! get thee away!  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!   This is the throne of Mammon grey."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56570</guid></item></channel></rss>