<?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[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29026]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers there really.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress. [Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see fair hair Be pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see fair hair Be pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be innumerable township roads that we can't make an assessment on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be innumerable township roads that we can't make an assessment on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we can, as a nation, step into the bright light of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's every possibility that this is a murder we are dealing with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   The post of honor shall be mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43016</guid></item></channel></rss>