<?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[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59352]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need is one stunning pot and one stunning plant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. -Marian Anderson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1094]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to love it while you have it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[do not want a peaceful settlement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768]]></link><description><![CDATA[do not want a peaceful settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by the cable; led     Through the Indian Ocean's bed,      Through the Persian Gulf, the Red       Sea, and the Med-]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits  For breath to reinspire him from the gates   That open still toward sunrise on the vault    High-domed of morning.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About the Oscars] Is the ultimate prize for any producer. It would have been a dream if Javier Bardem had been nominated for best actor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would always tell us to never let our guard down. At times, we would tell him, 'You're so uptight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would always tell us to never let our guard down. At times, we would tell him, 'You're so uptight, you just need to relax.' But if he wasn't like that I don't know if we would have taken some games as seriously as we did. It was good for him to be on our case about it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the passion of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item></channel></rss>