<?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[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56895]]></link><description><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13032]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31296]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a game we knew would be a dogfight. We knew Marquette was a big, physical team that liked to play a tough, physical game and the officials let us play that way tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54686]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63578]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication:  Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk   The hopes of all men and of every nation;    Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:      But to return,--Get very drunk; and when       You wake with headache, you shall see what then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31797]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55950]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10454]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,   To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kiss the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kiss the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727]]></link><description><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3335]]></link><description><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item></channel></rss>