<?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[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16562]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very disappointed. I really don't know what happened, ... Basically on the first or second stride I pushed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very disappointed. I really don't know what happened, ... Basically on the first or second stride I pushed on my leg and collapsed. I just could not get up to speed. It was too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627]]></link><description><![CDATA[One out of suits with fortune. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box ... the ball kept deflecting off people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finish the stage safely you need to keep out of the dust of the car in front. It was just like a long train of cars and bikes today. There was no chance to get into a rhythm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has gone out of business. They've not been able to stay financially afloat and are unable to do the work they've been contracted to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22956]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,  But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a story every day in this place. Some of them are comical and some of them are tragic. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a story every day in this place. Some of them are comical and some of them are tragic. I've had producers tell me they could do a sitcom about what goes on in this office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light  Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item></channel></rss>