<?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[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45571]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him   And but one to bid him go.    When lips invite,     And eyes delight,      And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,       Persuade delay,--        What boots to say         Forego me now, come to me soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28917]]></link><description><![CDATA[making excuses for the Saudi government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47002]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he could be a good player because he could shoot the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we really concerned about that stuff (environmental protection), or do we just want to speed things along?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our negotiating stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499]]></link><description><![CDATA[My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill,  Portend success in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63027]]></link><description><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item></channel></rss>