<?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[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50258]]></link><description><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although no deal is yet final, all interested parties are expected to congregate in Detroit next Wednesday to iron out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although no deal is yet final, all interested parties are expected to congregate in Detroit next Wednesday to iron out the final details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life so short, the crafts so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entire water of sea can't sink a ship,unless it gets inside the ship . Similarly negativity of world can't put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entire water of sea can't sink a ship,unless it gets inside the ship . Similarly negativity of world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. [Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41750]]></link><description><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision introduced into the Chinese Constitution in March 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55877]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314]]></link><description><![CDATA[To measure the man, measure his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534</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[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing,  But divine melodious truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing,  But divine melodious truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as we wanted. We didn't reach our goal. This year our goal was to improve our record from last year to where we are now. To do that took teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17450]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand   Is what you have given away.    . . . .     He gave with a zest and he gave his best;      Give him the best to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so?   You would have blush'd yourself to death    To own so much a year ago.     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then      I'll have to say, Good-night again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576</guid></item></channel></rss>