<?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[Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe. thanks to Mary Larson -Donald Curtis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luckily the disc was in the up position,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tears will pierce into a marble heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn outthat there are hundreds, thousands, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21312]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn outthat there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just aswe are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as weare, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11275]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coast was clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coast was clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60909]]></link><description><![CDATA[For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481]]></link><description><![CDATA[My poverty, but not my will consents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57164]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57164</guid></item></channel></rss>