<?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[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</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[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, theother is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22378]]></link><description><![CDATA[While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, theother is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness andfor height. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness andfor height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32119]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the one who dries your tears is the one who makes you cry, who do you run to? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28157]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the one who dries your tears is the one who makes you cry, who do you run to?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that we have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that we have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have five times as many customers as we did three years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,  Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,   O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming;    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!      Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be converted; to tell them to be sure they look at Christ instead of simply holding up Christ; to tell them to have faith rather than to supply its object; to lead them to work up their minds, instead of impressing upon them the thought of Him who can savingly work in them; to bid them to be sure their faith is justifying, that it is not dead, formal, self-righteous, or merely moral, instead of delineating Him whose image, fully delineated, destroys deadness, formality, self-righteousness; to rely on words, vehemence, eloquence, and the like, rather than to aim at conveying the one great idea, whether in words or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of using the Beatles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see we have made some progress on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35617]]></link><description><![CDATA[But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack   Of somebody to hew and hack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25352]]></link><description><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools of the trade]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22927]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, and protracted feast,   Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44573]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60923</guid></item></channel></rss>