<?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[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568]]></link><description><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16739]]></link><description><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have gained my experience. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7527]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We may choose the pace    Who bow for grace,     At the Inn of the Silver Moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all the President's men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10400]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all the President's men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66427]]></link><description><![CDATA[High expectations are the key to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24144]]></link><description><![CDATA[They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's destiny is alwayes dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49057]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's destiny is alwayes dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is on the table, we have innumerable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   And spread those pinions grey;    But when they once are fairly poised,     Far o'er each chirping thing      Thou sailest wide to other lands,       E'en sleeping on the wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25598</guid></item></channel></rss>