<?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[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as good as this next year. I'm going to go out, try my hardest and keep that same mind frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostileworld. Same world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostileworld. Same world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, orthey'll eventually conquer you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21571]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, orthey'll eventually conquer you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3142</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[-Clo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55769]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Clo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31737]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of factors we don't know definite answers to yet, to know whether this is OK or not OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion. [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when we think we lead, we are most led. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24476]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when we think we lead, we are most led.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) we haven't seen a reason to doubt Dr. Ramey's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmetic surgery and poker are popular right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cosmetic surgery and poker are popular right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not think the Delphi bankruptcy should be viewed as an example of the eventual fate of all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not think the Delphi bankruptcy should be viewed as an example of the eventual fate of all of the auto suppliers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61553</guid></item></channel></rss>