<?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[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I have ever seen.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it easier than they did. We were recognized by the council.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a freshman and he was feeling his way. As the season progressed, you could see him getting better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a freshman and he was feeling his way. As the season progressed, you could see him getting better and better. He's more mature now. He's more confident now. He's doing a great job now on his route running. You can see that he has a year under his belt. He is having an excellent spring. He really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but deceives;   'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'    One story no two daisies tell."     Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves      Under the daisy's mocking spell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248</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[We have a factory and we still want to use it next year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a factory and we still want to use it next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care;  The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care;  The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,   And bade it blossom there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60713]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49361]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While foulest fiends shun thy society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58241]]></link><description><![CDATA[While foulest fiends shun thy society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62247]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48354]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line   Of still expanding and ascending gyres,    It pushed toward the intense significance     Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?      Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the poison of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22431]]></link><description><![CDATA[True or true? Yes or yes?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22431</guid></item></channel></rss>