<?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[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, experiencing things for the first time. That was the first time I had really broken things, and it felt so good - *beep*ing great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "now" I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34382]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is on inflation watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,   Now tell me if that any is.    For gift or grace, surpassing this--     "He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   She struck the rude Tarpeian rock;    Sparks were kindled by the shock--     Again thy fires began to burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26050]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means there really isn't any threat of inflation out there. Remember all those terrible surprises we used to get on Fridays? It's about time the bond market got a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1050]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pressure, no diamonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part:  That may be claim'd again which was but lent,   And should be yielded with no discontent,    Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,     That it was left us to enjoy it long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item></channel></rss>