<?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[The White House is the finest prison in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66154]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/525]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail formany decades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray your Highness mark this curious herb: Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,  And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;   But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent    Most disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The latest of whose train goes softly out   In the red west.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]   - credited to Sophie Arnould,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835]]></link><description><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike such synecdoches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents,  Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state,   Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.    Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52200</guid></item></channel></rss>