<?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[Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't mix the split in, we're going to wait a couple of outings and let him air out before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't mix the split in, we're going to wait a couple of outings and let him air out before mixing in the split in outing three or four. We're guarding it with kid gloves right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16570]]></link><description><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42616]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244]]></link><description><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you will see that next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13448]]></link><description><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29475]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as with any strong leaders, you're going to have points of contention where they are going to express their strengths. That doesn't mean they don't respect one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57705]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64484</guid></item></channel></rss>