<?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 are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859]]></link><description><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth   By labours of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51989]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll look forward to what they have to tell them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes have no way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes have no way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27664</guid></item></channel></rss>