<?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[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869]]></link><description><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always written in a free, unencumbered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. -James Hillman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</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[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58293]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun,   Who many a glowing kiss had won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told the guys coming in that their pressure was going to be the key and fourth quarter their pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told the guys coming in that their pressure was going to be the key and fourth quarter their pressure got to our guards and we didn't get the ball inside like we did the first three quarters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51561]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230]]></link><description><![CDATA[the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14802]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  On the Brink of Death. Now hath my life across a stormy sea  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all  Are bidden, ere the final reckoning fall Of good and evil for eternity. Now know I well how that fond phantasy  Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall  Of earthly art, is vain; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed,  What are they when the double death is nigh?  The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest  My soul that turns to His great love on high,  Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,  And what I have to do I hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52280</guid></item></channel></rss>