<?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[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   I looked and looked--and laughed.    It seemed so curious that she     Should cross the unknown water,      And moor herself within my room--       My daughter! O my daughter!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2208]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53881]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how important this game was. I knew if both teams played at the top of their games, it could go either way. But the conditions do dictate the game a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542]]></link><description><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're up around 27 percent from this time last year. Everybody gives us the same reason. They've decided to buy something that doesn't use as much gas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further than is necessary to some good end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing   It is the wind of March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32501]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20490]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20490</guid></item></channel></rss>