<?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[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19323]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19473]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel comfortable and confident she is learning how to take care of herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23094]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;  Poetic fields encompass me around,   And still I seem to tread on classic ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   A double tooth    Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were witnesses. We know who did this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense hides shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense hides shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that measures not himselfe, is measured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that measures not himselfe, is measured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6129]]></link><description><![CDATA[In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow is either a madman or a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow is either a madman or a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shee spins well that breedes her children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. However, if the price remains high or goes higher, then we may have to drop a home-and-home series with someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142]]></link><description><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306]]></link><description><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral the only ones you'll hear are the ones that are controversial or inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897</guid></item></channel></rss>