<?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[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Saturday they called and said, 'OK, we're making it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still get 100 percent of what we were owed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40983]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29808]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult us and our religion, and humiliate our Koran and our prophet, prayers be upon him. After that they give us lessons in freedom, justice and human rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64337]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65702]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35985]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all parties to the proceedings working together to reach agreements that are fair and equitable to all stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation is advancing on both tracks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36363]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these songs and I would love to scare them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live happily is an inward power of the soul. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good team, a team that is going to come in here and give us a good fight. They beat us in this tournament every year. They seem to have our numbers, so we certainly should not have come in here looking past them for any reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31302</guid></item></channel></rss>