<?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 is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardon all but thy selfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628]]></link><description><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government has a solid base. The next government will be judged according to its pre-election promise: to fix Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government has a solid base. The next government will be judged according to its pre-election promise: to fix Israel's borders based on demographic considerations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood   With swarthy webs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit  That could be moved to smile at anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing:  O see where wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing:  O see where wide the golden sunlight flows--   The barren desert blossoms as the rose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is quite true that the Greek word ekklesia comes from two roots which mean literally "called out." Many preachers have made use of this fact to point out helpful spiritual implications; and yet, by New Testament times, the word carried no such denotation as "called out." It was simply the word for "assembly" or "congregation." It so happened that in the Greek city-states an assembly of the citizenry resulted from the people being called out of their city and summoned from their farms to participate in such gatherings. Even though the etymology of the word remains, its real meaning is just "assembly," and a Greek-speaking person of New Testament times would be no more inclined to understand ekklesia in its original etymological value of "called out" than we today would recognize "God be with you" in "good-by," which, as we may learn from the dictionary, was derived from the longer phrase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never confuse movement with action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty Chambers make foolish maides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and playing up to their capabilities. We'll need all of those guys ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53664</guid></item></channel></rss>