<?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[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy: lying in state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy: lying in state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more violent the storm the sooner it is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every noble work is at first impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring wecall luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55841]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our view, these proceedings could drag on for many quarters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63894]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've beendisappointed, to those who still believe even though they've beenbetrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeenhurt before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;  Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone will do),   That I may call my own;    And close at hand is such a one     In yonder street that fronts the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782</guid></item></channel></rss>